The Pet has a pet!

First can I say the "pet pic" has been discovered and is available to anyone who wants to see it.I won't be publishing it myself cos it looks weird to me! I mean,I don't think I look very sexy!I look too innocent! If you really want to see it then of course i will e-mail it to you but I'm in no rush!

What i wanted to tell you is that I have a new pet of my own!
Go back a few years and picture this.Myself and my friend Sarah Pay in a Landrover on our way to the south of France to collect two dogs.Sarah was bringing in 2 dachsunds to breed a litter andI was to have a puppy.At the last moment she decided that she had too much on her plate and asked if I would have one of the dogs instead.So we set off to Toulouse to collect them with our children in the backof the car(one of mine 4 of hers!)
We navigated round Paris no problem and spent a fun couple of days while the paperwork was prepared.I became the proud owner of the most beautiful dachsund I'd ever seen.We called him "Murphy" cos my daughters wanted to be the "sisters of Murphy".Sadly my dog had something wrong with him and I had to have him put to sleep.It was an awful day for me and I missed him terribly.I think it rated in my top five worst days of my life.
Sarah moved to Leicester and when I visited her I always made a fuss of her little dachsund,Finnalie.Last weekend I played a gig at "The Musician" in Leicester( and hello to anyone who was there).Sarah very kindly put me up for the night and while I was there she expained that she was selling her farmhouse and getting rid of her animals.She asked me if I would like to take Finnalie home with me! so here she is and lying at my feet as I write this.It's like re-creating a part of my past and I couldn't be happier.
love to you all
claire xxxxxxxxxx