My flagship bullie!

 I have loved making this! Now that he's done, we exchange glances now and then in a most companionable way........

a throwback....

What better way to spend a few hundred years than with your little dog curled under your feet? This is the faithful dog of Sir Richard Pembridge, Knight of the Garter and veteran of the Battles of Crécy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years War. He died in 1375 and this is his tomb in Hereford Cathedral. His canine guardian despite being 14th century, looks a little like a bull terrier. The carving on his nose is worn smooth from the affectionate pats of passing admirers across the centuries....

Inspiration!

It's just this sort of propensity to sit in unusual places (whether or not a photographer is present) that attracted me to this vintage photo. I was thinking of much the same thing when I positioned my bull terrier precariously on a stool beside the parrot. There is something of the circus elephant about it.....
That aside, it seems to me that unlike most other animals caught by the camera, dogs are usually posing......
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/175966490/bull-terrier-notecards-parrot-bull?ref=shop_home_active_2

Fancy footwork at the Terriers' Club!

The Terriers' Club now has its own website - Bull Terrier Prints, which has given me the chance to do the fancy footwork above!  See more at: http://www.bullterrierprints.com

work in progress...

Here's something I've started. It's inspired by a cat (ceramic) of all things. Any right thinking bull terrier would be ashamed.....

Off to the shops......

I have just been designing a shopping list (which of course features a bull terrier) and remembered the dog with a bag of Maltesers which used to wait patiently outside my local shop. He even carried them all the way home intact! 
I have never been to the shops with a dog and a wicker basket though my shopping lists always end up with a  doodled bull terrier beaming from beneath the brussel sprouts! I always enjoy a word with the marooned dogs I see tied up outside. 

Shopping lists coming to my Etsy store soon!

the nightmare continues......

 Not only have they got quite a bit bigger - they seem just a little too ccomfortable!