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June 12th 2009
14. June 2009 by admin.
Well. What can I say? I am back and slowly being rehabilitated back into life. It has been the year from hell. I picked my parents up from the airport in January on their return from a trip to my sister in the US and both looked so ill I insisted they see their GP. Both were diagnosed with terminal cancer and I stayed in East Sussex to look after them. My mother died at the beginning of March and my father died on June 1st. Tony’s father also died in the middle of March and we are still reeling with the shock of it all. So. Not a great 2009. I am immensely grateful to all my amazing friends and our gorgeous daughters who kept everything going at home and at Tilley Farm which enabled me to be with my parents in their last months of life. The courses have been running smoothly in my absence thanks to the hard work of Mags and Tina. I think we all need a month in a health spa.
I decided to turn my hand to novel writing whilst I was in Hastings but am now in a panic as I have to send three chapters into a publisher. AAAAAGGHHH! I also have plans for two more books for David and Charles but my editor and I have decided to put things on hold for a few months as I don’t think my brain is in gear quite yet. Cookie Dough Dynamo spent some time with me in Hastings and we had glorious walks up on the Firehills which kept me sane. There is nothing like the company of a good dog to keep your spirits up. She was such a difficult puppy when she came to me on foster but the year and a half of hard work has truly paid off. Cookie is perfect. So easy and such good fun. She took to her new environment instantly and loved romping along the cliffs and playing in the sea. I am sure that without her company I would have fallen apart (or off the edge of the East Hill).
On a more positive note, the new book 100 Ways to Overcome Problems is coming out this autumn and the proofs have just arrived on my desk. It’s looking good. There are a few missing photographs but my gorgeous photographer is on his way down to spend the weekend with us and we should be able to get all the necessary shots tomorrow. Tony will be coming home tonight for a few days HURRAH! I think we need to party. Mind you I am a cheap date these days. Daisy made Margaritas the other night and I was on the floor after half a glass. It’s been months since we all spent some time at home together and I am looking forward to a peaceful summer walking my dogs although more misery is on its way as our beloved lurcher Archie has a serious heart condition. Still. I have had enough experience through life to know that we should enjoy every moment that we have with those that we love as you never know when things are going to change.
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My Most Perfect Day
21. November 2008 by admin.
Bliss, oh Bliss. A rare day off for both me and Tony at the same time and NOTHING to do but muck out, walk dogs, and catch up. It has been such a busy year and a frenetic end to the TTouch year with radio interviews, the book launch for 100 Ways to Train the Perfect Dog, Discover Dogs, Your Horse Live, the International Animal Welfare Conference (my favourite event of my year), a mini film session for BBC Points West and the final four workshops for 2008 in London, Leamington and here at Tilley Farm all packed into the last four weeks before I head out to the US to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and my nephews in Connecticut.
Tony has had an equally mad year and has not stopped working. Trying to keep up with charity commitments as well has been no mean feat and we certainly have a lot to be thankful for as our lives are truly blessed. The Maremma puppies that were born at the farm are now six weeks old and so joyful and so clever. They are already tumbling out into the garden when they need to relieve themselves and the last month has also been a social one with visitors and puppy sitters coming and going helping to take the pressure off as we charge around the country.
It hasn’t been without the odd moment, though, where I have questioned whether I should retire and spend my days knitting blankets for ancient cats. The success of Discover Dogs had obviously gone to Cookie Dough Dynamo’s head as she developed an overwhelming urge to attach herself to my fleece with her teeth as BBC Points West started filming!!!! Tony lost our Shetland pony twice in a month and the change in the weather has brought out the worst in our donkeys and horses!!! Days have started at 4.00am on a few occasions and phone calls and emails had been backing up.
But now, calm has been restored. All my work commitments are complete, and the footage on BBC Points West was fantastic (thank heavens for TTouch as Cookie calmed down and behaved perfectly). Walking this morning with Tony through the glorious autumnal countryside that surrounds our home with our dogs leaping joyfully through the mud and leaves was a reminder (if it is ever really needed) that I am so very glad that I do the work that I do and can’t ever really imagine giving up my job. And besides. I can’t actually knit.
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Welcome To Our First Blog
6. November 2008 by admin.
Welcome to our first blog!!!! I have been blogging for a fantastic equine website horsehero.com and have finally found a few spare minutes to sit and start the Tilley Farm blog.
It is totally and utterly manic here at the moment but very exciting and jolly good fun. Tony and I are waiting to do a press photograph to accompany an interview for the Western Daily Press about my new book 100 Ways to Train the Perfect Dog. He is on the phone (situation normal) and I am at the computer (yup – situation normal again). If we don’t work together we don’t see each other – its that simple.
The last few weeks have been fantastically varied. Tony finished filming Merlin and has started his next project, five new pups have been born at Tilley Farm, the mother is a friends dog who needed somewhere quiet to whelp, my new book has prompted a series of radio interviews and I have been whizzing around visiting the Holistic Horse Show, speaking at the International Animal Welfare Conference in Italy (the highlight of my TTouch year) which was held in Italy (thank heavens I can multi task as Tony is asking me a million question as I type), and am now getting ready for Your Horse Live in Warwickshire on Friday and then Earls Court in London for Discover Dogs.
(Quick break in typing whilst we dash out to take the picture!)
Back again and what is that saying? Never work with photographers and animals???? Ok – I know they are under pressure BUT!!!!!! Anyhow – Cookie Dough Dynamo was a star, I look drunk and Tony looks gorgeous. Hey ho.
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