Never get a pure bred collie!

[MarkCDodd]

They are way, way too smart for us mere humans.

My daughter was making a cheese cake and had just finished the crumb base when she decided to have a bit of a break.

She had placed the cake tin with the base in what should have been a fairly safe position way back on the kitchen bench.

After ten minutes she went back to finish the cake and discovered our seven year old border collie, Gracie, had moved two chairs in the idning room into position so she could leap from one to the other and then onto the bench.

I heard the chairs scraping on the floor but didn't think much of it.

So there was Gracie standing on the bench with her snout in the cake tin polishing off the crumb base.

My youngest hardly ever swears but she would have made a sailor blush with what she called Gracie

[Antie Em]

We used to have two - even got themfrom Wales. Sadie - very beautiful and very clever and very highly strung. We also had her brother Ben. They needed such a lot of exercise though. Luckily we lived by a good expanse of open land.

[Lulu]

I've been run ragged by my daughter's, while I was over there and he isn't 12 months old yet, so you can probably imagine what he's like. Found a great way to tire him out, went to the river, my daughter crossed over on a footbridge and then we called him from one side to another, which worked for quite a while, then he decided to go over the bridge himself.

[Rob]

You're looking good there Lu.Is that the Rhine?
Have you still got that dog of yours? Bonzo? No? Rowley!! Thats the one!!

[Lulu]

You're looking good there Lu.Is that the Rhine?
Have you still got that dog of yours? Bonzo? No? Rowley!! Thats the one!!

Yes, of course I'm looking good, that's my daughter, who's 23 years younger than me!! Note the seriously strapped up arm, which is why I've been over there for the last couple of weeks.

[Lulu]

This is the River pinched from Wikipedia, we were in Wallau.

Upper Lahntal and Wetschaft Depression


The confluence of the Wetschaft with the Lahn


The Upper Lahn Valley at Bad Laasphe from the Topographia Hassiae of Matthäus Merian, 1655
The section of the Lahn below the town of Bad Laasphe is geographically known as the Upper Lahn Valley (German: Ober Lahntal). Above Bad Laasphe, where the river flows between the Rothaargebirge on the left (i.e. to the north) and the Gladenbach Uplands on the right, the Lahn Valley is simply considered part of these mountains.
Between Niederlaasphe (of Bad Laasphe) and Wallau (of Biedenkopf), the river crosses the border between North-Rhine Westphalia and Hesse. It then flows in an easterly direction through some districts of Biedenkopf (but not the central town) and the towns of Dautphetal and Lahntal. It is joined from the right by the Perf at Wallau and at Friedensdorf (of Dautphetal) by the Dautphe (which flows in a side valley to the south).

It eventually flows into The Rhine at Koblenz.

Yes, still have Rowley, he's about 11 years old now. He's a naughty food thief, as he can take food off the work surfaces in the kitchen, without even having to get up onto his back legs.