Socialisation…kinda
Although half the schools around here are still on holiday, I sat the boys around the table this morning to do a bit of studying, mainly because Freddy and George needed to get back into some routine. They did some history and geography, and a bit of French and a bit of German, then I went to the library to collect a couple of reserved books while George stayed here to watch the pups (I was only gone for about 15 minutes, but we’ve not left the pups alone in the house at all so far). After lunch we hovered around the garden, which now looks much better, Scratchy having repaired the hedge-trimmers and completed the job. We haven’t done the trees and bushes at the front yet; maybe I’ll get to those tomorrow. Or maybe, since I haven’t planned Beavers tomorrow night yet, I won’t.
There were three girls bouncing on the trampoline in the garden that backs onto ours, and when I heard them oohing and aahing over the world’s most gorgeous puppies, I called over to them that they were welcome to come over and play with them. Seconds later 
they were at the door. They were here for over two hours and I’m not sure who enjoyed it more: the girls or the dogs 
Plenty of good socialisation for the pups there - and yesterday they got some canine socialisation in, meeting their first non-related dog, a miniature schnauzer owned by friends of ours, and who we dog-sit fairly regularly. After a bit of wariness and sniffing, the three dogs soon settled into a pattern of playing and chasing each other, and meanwhile we had a lovely afternoon with our friends 
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Hi Deb, i haven’t readyour blog for a bit and am struggling to catch up…..Where did the puppies come from, I thought you guys didn’t keep snuffles.
We have been busy sunning ourselves on holiday in Australia, hence being lost on the puppie thing
Yes, well, that’s a very long story, but to cut it very short, a certain person discovered that deliberate grumpiness can have a very high price, and decided the price was too high to pay. Lots of work on that relationship over the last while. Lucky you on Australia!