Meet Pumpkin, My New Pal

Guess what? I received an email the other day from Pumpkin, a Lakeland Terrier. Her owner is none other than Sarah from the band Belle & Sebastian, mentioned in my previous post! Now Pumpkin lives in Scotland so we're unlikely to meet in pawson but we can be virtual friends, which is probably better for me, being such a grump. Pumpkin has her own page on Dogster so you can check her out there. In the meantime, here she is being chased by her pal, Hector the WFT. He looks kinda ferocious, doesn't he, but Pumpkin assures me that she's the boss.

I asked Pumpkin about Patches the wheelie on the cover of the "Dog on Wheels" CD (see previous post). Sadly he was dognapped and sold on eBay. So someone out there has a famous coverstar wheelie! I wonder if they know?

A few of you asked about the TV show Belle & Sebastian which is where the band took their name from. It was based on a novel "Belle et Sébastien" by Cécile Aubry about a boy and his Great Pyrenees dog who lived in a small French village. It was made into a live action French TV series in the 1960s which used to be repeated endlessly in a dubbed version on UK TV during the school summer holidays. The Js both remember watching it in the 1970s. Later, in the 1980s it was made into a hideous Japanese cartoon. Not the same thing at all! Are you totally confused now? Let me make it simple. For information on Belle & Sebastian (the band) click here. For information on the French TV show, click here. For information on the Japanese cartoon, click here. There, now everyone should be happy.

Don't forget to visit Pumpkin on Dogster and leave her a bone or two...

FrankenStanley

One of my favourite British designers is Cath Kidston. I have one of her stylish red dog beds. She must be pretty nice as she has a Lakeland Terrier called Stanley and he's quite handsome. I like the fact that Stanley often features in her mail order catalogue.

Cath Kidston recently held a competition to make a soft toy based on Stanley. The pattern was provided; all you had to do was cut it out and sew it together. Easy! Now J1 is not the best seamstress so she asked her Mum to lend a helping hand. Here is the result:



It's FrankenStanley!

My advice to both of them is don't give up your day jobs unless there's a sudden demand for mutant WFT toys. Click here to see some of the fabulous winning entries.