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Day 2

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Feels like a post from the Big Brother house but we have now been a full two days with out pr little Hugo and it feels like he is beginning to trust us some more 🙂

We only had just over 30 minutes of yowling last night as we all went to bed – it was more like 2.5 to 3 hours on Friday night so that has been categorised as a win 🙂

However, a small mistake was made and the washing machine was left on delayed start and so promptly woke our new little friend at 5:15am this morning 🙁 the almost immediate howling meant that somebody needed to get up with him – given daddy had some work to do from last week, he jumped up for the job 🙂

A small we had been lot for the little guy and when he went out, he had another and then promptly went to sleep in daddy’s lap while daddy reviewed a work video, so he was popped straight back into his ‘cab’ and daddy laid next to him on the office floor from around 6:30am for a 49 minute kip 🙂

The change between yesterday and today is very stark – today Hugo is more than amiable regarding settling into his cab – yesterday he had little interest in using the cab (crate).

  
We have ordered a 1m high octagonal metal framed run to attach to the under stair den for Hugo so that it can be considered more permanent than the bike box cardboard setup that we presently have – he will deffo soon figure out how to body swipe it and leave us in shit street and chew the damned carpet on the bull nose…. (He keeps trying…)

All the books tell us that we have a long journey ahead of us regarding training Hugo, although we do feel good about our progress thus far. We have endured many ‘accidents’ so far, we do feel that we are having in a positive direction – time is the only teller on this journey however.

This week will be fun as we have our first school run with Hugo and we have a chap coming round to hopefully fix up the en-suite – so we might have a functioning en-suite by the end of the week – Gary reckons two days will nail it – we all hope he is right 🙂

First night…

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So, Hugo is not keen to be left alone it seems – we are definitely going to have our work cut out over the next few weeks. More than we had thought.

We all went to bed at 10pm and mummy ended up going down to see to Hugo at 10:45 as the howling continued for 45 minutes. A little weeing had taken place and chewing of the newspaper we left for him.

However after a further 45 minutes of howling he finally gave in and went to sleep – daddy got up at 6am with him and surprisingly there was no mess at all and he went out for a one and two almost to order.

He still isn’t showing any interest in eating although he has been drinking water thankfully.

Anyway, here is some video and a photo of him playing with Olly 🙂

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Hugo

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Tonight we are going to collect the latest addition to the Rust household.

   

 Many thanks to Lee (obv I mean Caroline 😉) for helping us all realise Hugo’s name.

We are all super excited to introduce him to his new home and hope he thoroughly loves it here.

Ale Trail in the sunshine

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Yesterday daddy set out with the boys early to head out on the Ale Trail once again. A bacon butty in Leeds was the strategy in order to have a hot pie and peas in Stalybridge – only when we arrived there was no hot food on – Strategy Failure 🙁

  
However the sun was glorious so we managed a couple of pints – as we sat back enjoying the beer and conversation Stalybridge went from being very quiet to super busy as all the other ale trailers rocked up.

Lee came up with the wisdom of the day – missing out Greenfield (as there I no beer garden of consequence) so that we could head straight to Marsden and stay in the sun and crucially ahead of the queue of trailers 🙂

We enjoyed a light lunch at the RiverHead Tap pub again, in the sunshine and following three pints there we head on to Slaithwaite where once again we sat out in the sunshine, enjoyed two pints and a warm pork pie – a GOOD pork pie at that 🙂

Then on to Huddersfield where there was a huge beer festival going on right outside the railway station so we didn’t bother heading into the pub – just a cheeky couple of ales in the Huddersfield sunshine 🙂 oh, and a nice ice-cream 🙂

Then it was back on the train for Mirfield (our final train journey) and a short walk over to the Flower Pot – that’s right another couple (well for daddy one was a coke) of beverages in the sunshine.

We grabbed a taxi up to Grangemoor and Grameen for a curry where we bumped into Grandma and Granddad who were out for a meal also.

The great news was that meant a lift home afterwards 🙂 Winner.

A fantastic day with sunburn to prove it and incredibly no headache this morning 🙂

Terrific weekend – now back to it for 3 weeks

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We have sadly come out of the other side of a terrific weekend – Saturday was a day of BBQ over at Rob and April’s and despite the rain (there was LOTS of it), it was a truly fantastic day – Rob made some pulled pork that was literally the best pulled pork we have ever experienced – just WOW. Wine and laughter accompanied good friends and the kids just played and played all day, with the finale being some fireworks that Tracey had found  in their garage.

Then yesterday, we went over to grandma and granddad’s for another BBQ and again the food was great, the conversation great but to really top it the sun came out, and came out for real – it was a scorcher, so being sat in the BBQ pit area was simply delightful – hot sun mixed with little clouds and no wind made for perfect conditions. IT did mean that we were all dreaming of our holidays which are only three weeks away, but it still feels like an eternity away….

All of this following daddy’s results from his over 40’s medical check up – all OK except cholesterol levels which are sadly rather high 🙁 Presently the level is 5.9 and really needs to be under 5.1 apparently. Also, when this was checked back in 2009, the level was 4.5 so something is not going in the right direction 🙁 On the plus side, his chance of heart attack etc is only 3.03% in the next 10 years so that is a positive – now just to sort the diet to lose the extra weight that has appeared in the last 2 months and work on reducing the cholesterol… Typical, with a holiday coming up…