Just a little about me. I was Born in 1936 (Ye dOgs, am I really as ancient as that???).
Warrington, Cheshire was my actual birthplace.
My Father was in the army and wherever he went we had to follow, so we lived in Dover, Folkestone, Halifax, Oxford, Portsmouth, Derbyshire, to name but a few places.
We finally settled in Liverpool which was not the most beautiful, nicest place in the world even in those days, but the people were, and are, the warmest, funniest and most generous people I know.
Since those days I have lived in New York, Italy, France, Belgium and for 37 years I lived in Switzerland before coming back to the UK in 1995.
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When I am old.....I shall wear Turquoise and soft grey sweatshirts ...
and a bandana over my silver hair.....and I shall spend my Social Security cheques on Sweet Wine and My Dogs...and sit in my house on my well-worn chair, and listen to my dogs breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will
allow..... and when people come to call, I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs...and talk of them and about them...
the Ones so Beloved of the past and the Ones so Beloved of today....
I still will work hard cleaning after them and washing and feeding them and whispering their names in a
soft, loving way... I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat like a jewel. And I will be an embarrassment to all...
and to my family ... who have not yet found the
peace in being free to have dogs as your best friends....
These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your
footfall...and eagerly jump to their feet out of a
sound sleep, to greet you as if you are a God.
With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that
you will stay and hug their big, strong necks...and kiss
their dear sweet heads...and whisper to them of your
love and the beautiful pleasure of their very special company....
I look in the Mirror...and I see I am getting old....
this is the kind of woman I am...and have always been.
Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me, they accept me
for who I am, my dogs appreciate my presence in their lives...
When I am old this will be important to me...
and you will understand when you are old....
and if you have dogs to love too.
