It takes 'the font' forty minutes to walk round the lake with Bob in the morning. Maybe forty five, tops, if he decides to talk to the fishermen. Sophie is a different matter. Angelic contemplation of the 'lets stop and look at the ducks' variety is interspersed with manic hyperactivity of the 'that jogger looks dangerous' type. Yesterdays promenade with Sophie took an hour and twenty minutes. The highlight being Sophie's forceful rejection of an overly friendly bulldog called Claude. This morning Sophie is left to accompany Angus for a walk through the village.
The post brings a blog e-book from the US. Volume one of 'Bob n'Sophie's French adventure ' . A rather ungraceful picture of a youthful Bob being held by the farmers wife adorns the front cover. This latest volume joins seven others on the bookshelf. Angus keeps a daily diary. Its contents tend towards war and rumours of war or rants about tuition fees. The big things in life. The blog books are different. A history of those little things too unimportant for the diary but too important to be forgotten. Who knows someone , somewhere, in the future might pull them down and ponder life with PON's.
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Lovely Autumn light in the top two photos today.
Your blog books would be a great addition to any library. The stories are wonderful, funny and mostly entertaining. The pics that grace each page of the books would bring a smile to my face.
What a great idea to keep a book copy of the PONs adventures. It's amazing how much you forget but this way you have the perfect reminder and pictorial evidence. (although the pictorial evidence of Sophie's chicken and dining room table incident and Hamish and the scones incident are sadly both missing)
That's a fantastic idea....what better way to capture the lives of all your canine loves for prosperity....a blog ebook....Great thinking Angus.
You have an incredible writing style which we all enjoy, so who knows maybe they'll appear on Amazon one day??
Wonder if Blogger will start offering that ebook service too?
I think the Bob and Sophie and Wilf and Digby blogs will make a bestseller someday. People are yearning for simpler times and enjoyable dogs seem to be a uniting theme. Just read a book called a Dogs Purpose, we all know what that is about and enjoy the topic time and again. All 4 of these pupsters have brought many laughs to the world at large!
Karen and Kelly Rathje
Is that your fine head of Scottish hair, Angus?
I love that you get the blog bound into books! :) I remember that picture of Bob when you went to meet them.
With all the characters that you encounter, your books should be made into a TV series!
Preserved for posterity!
When I first found your blog I went and read all of the archives and enjoyed it tremendously. You know, maybe you should consider having the blog books made into real books for people to buy!
Having your blogs made into e-books is a great idea, but I hope you also make regular "photo books" with the private pictures (that you don't share on your blog) of you, "The Font", your family, friends and guests, photos of you with your dogs, holidays, etc. which show the backstory to your blog, and enhance the tapestry of memories for yourself, "The Font", your family and perhaps great-great-grandchildren in the future when the two versions are looked at together.
A treasured tome, to be sure.
Love that cover photo of Bob.
Hi! What vendor do you use to make the books?
No doubt that someone will read them with interest in the future.
The differences between Bob and Sophie are fascinating. I love reading about them.
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