This weeks photo is an Eddie I took whilst trying out a fast prime.

It’s hot a whole lot different to any other Eddie photo but I love this one because the lighting somehow seems perfect, and depth is great and it looks somehow soft and pleasant in a way I can’t even explain.

It’s the weekend before Guy Fawkes which means, fireworks after bangy bang fireworks.

Eddie isn’t in a good way, he’s become incredibly submissive, I can prod and poke him in ways that irritate him madly normally, resulting in deep bloody bites, but at the moment he just bows his head and sighs. Tears my heart apart.

Want proof, well that pic has him rejecting a Pollo pizza, and you see that blue bell shaped toy around his neck? It’s filled with fresh chicken…. he hasn’t touched it.

Back from my little family holiday in Somerset.

I was really blown away by how lovely the region is both aesthetically and in terms of friendliness.  The countryside there is very welcoming towards walkers, well set up paths, styles and all that.  They have a hilly area of country there called the Quantock’s, which offers up some great views.

We went to many pubs and none were trashy, all well looked after with the friendliest publicans you will find anywhere.  Best of all, every single person in Somerset seems to love dogs, every pub allowed them in, even in the restaurant areas, no where up north seems to let you bring a dog anywhere near.  Even the pubs which served expensive food welcomed Eddie with open arms, really really good food too, a sample of dishes I had in these places would be…  Monkfish, John Dory, Scallops, Rabbit and lamb (with a historically creamy parsnip mash!), um I didn’t all that in one evening lol. All with Eddie at my feet.

Downside would be that Somerset seems to have the worst mobile data reception ever. Earlier in the year we stayed in Wales and the cottage had wi-fi, thing is I don’t think it was intended for us, but it was unencrypted so I can’t really complain that the cottage in Somerset had no such luxury.  Unfortunately I couldn’t get a decent data connection from my mobile either (I hook my mobile to my iBook when away to get proper internet).  In Wales I could get a really solid connection via GPRS and at good speeds, I could download all sorts at a good 40KB’s.  In Somerset I couldn’t get above 5KB’s (is that WAP speed?) and it would only ever stay connected for about 5 minutes.   Hence why I never bothered to blog.

Actually, I would have hoped to have the photo’s all done but I went a bit mad with the camera.  I’ve got 576 photos to master and thats with the out-of-focus, blurred, overexposed etc deleted.

Uh oh.

There was a crufts preview show yesterday and there was a PBGV, these dog people pronounce the Vendéen bit of PBGV in such a peculiar fashion. I love the markings on this one, but it’s not as handsome, or cute as our Eddie obviously, I mean, what dog is. And I dun like the way they’ve cut and combed its face. OMG, it wags its tail exactly like Eddie does!