A lovely time and lots of mud ! Lots and lots of STINKY mud !

This morning Boo, Archie & I went for a lovely trundle in the woods whilst Mr Boo did a 10k run in London for Marie Curie. Well it started off lovely ... things slowly changed.
Boo & Archie looking lovely and shiny and clean. I'm afraid it didn't last very long !


As you can probably tell, Boo got herself dressed this morning. Not particularly suitable for dog walking but I did insist on the wellies. A necessity when you have a Springer on the loose.


Still looking clean ? Yep, we're still OK ...


Clean Archie ? Yep, still white !



Lots of exploring and generally getting into mischief. The pair of them have selective hearing when there is mud and muck about ...



Hmm ... here comes the mud. Lots of mud. Stinky, Rancid mud. Thick, gooey, pungent mud.
Mud with things crawling in it. Mud that would pull you under and eat you at it's leisure. Mud that makes you panic when you realise your dog cannot get out and might easily get sucked under.
OK, maybe that's a bit dramatic but I did have a heart stopping moment when I saw Archie. Jumping in rather than wading into the putrid mass probably didn't help, but then again Archie doesn't do gentle or SLOW.


This was the result on dragging him out. Yuk, Pooey ... A real hold yer nose situation.


And this is the crap he jumped into. It absolutely stunk, thick black disgusting goo. Normally Archie wouldn't go near it but for some reason today he rather liked the idea of a mud bath.

Eewwwwww .......

Back in the field and 'A Hunting We Shall Go' ... I drop a tennis ball as we walk along and then get Archie to 'Quarter' and find it. It keeps his focus on me rather than the bunnies.


Boo at the top of the hill and Archie just coming back down to check on me ...

'Flying Without Wings' ... just great big Spaniel Ears.


Boo wanting to see the view over Grazely ...


A bit more hunting ...


A bit of a rest and a huggle ...


Ah, I love this photo ... Best Friends


I went out with no make-up on (shame on me), hadn't even brushed my hair and my scaggy old jeans. Heaven. Just glad I didn't see anyone I knew ...


Lordy, look at that bonce. That's real bed head for you, spikey, standy uppy hair and everything ...


Can you see those muddy legs. That was the stinky black muddy stuff ...


Stinky, black muddy star jumping ...


On the way back home ...


It's quite a long way y'know ...



Back home and after a lavender bath and hose down in the garden, Archie is looking lovely and white and shiny again. He smells better too. And look what he found in the woods, a new Kong toy that someone lost.
I threw Boo in the bath for a scrub, threw all the clothes in the washing machine and then I had to have a clean up too ... and we are all squeaky clean again.