On Saturday afternoon Harvey came to be puppysitted. He and the PEST immediately started playing and sparring with the PEST's BEST deflated volley ball
while I cheered them on.
It was quite a contest, that got ugly ...
then Harvey got mad and chased the PEST
pinning him to the ground till he snorted for mercy.
The victor. All of three months old.
Another game started,
then some digging.
They just went onandonandonandonandonandonandon ...
Bawwrrrring.
Then they fell asleep.
The next morning after the Alph left on his bike, we got some cellphone photos from Sue and Pauline and Thea who were climbing up Oppelskop.
We wished we could have been there having tea too, although the PEST was having a great time Harveysitting.
The view over Signal Head from Oppelskop. Robben Island in the distance. Thanks Sue for the photos.
Kerryn was feeling sick, so Phil came with us on a gentle Sunday puppy walk. This is Harvey putting on his fancy Harvey-harness.
We went to the greenbelt where the whole of Cape Town seemed to have congregated as we could hardly find a spot to park our car.
But luckily it wasn't too crowded and Phil threw sticks for the manic pups,
and we met lotsandlotsandlotsandlots of dogs.
Havey and the PEST enjoyed chasing squirrels
and meeting other dogs - well, the PEST doesn't look too sure about this massive mastiff.
Driving home to comfort Kerryn and welcome the Alph back from his ride in Phil's car with the fancy tartan dog sling.
As we are quite bad at walking on leads, our human brother only took us for a few walks around the block, so this outing to the Constantia Greenbelt was our first proper walk since they deserted us to do the Otter Trail. It was looking rather autumnal.
we all followed Gabe and Arti who set off at a great pace.
Gabe and Hugh preferred to do some Lego building.
We went to fetch Roos - and Charlie wanted to come too but he couldn't fit into the car. We also had to leave poor Dawnie dog behind because of space issues. Lucky we are quite small or we would have been left behind too because there was a good turn-out for our walk up Noordhoek Ridge: Us, our humans, Sue, Pauline, Kate from Canada, Roos from Holland, Lucy, Richard, Josie and Alice. We all met up at Silvermine Dam, then piled into the Land Rover and drove round Chapman's Peak to the start of the walk - 
which was all misty and eerie. 
Alice saw this giant Egyptian lioness god - Sekhmet - with a Pharaoh's beard looming out of the mist. 
At the crossroads. 
Richard with Kate from Canada and Roos from Holland. I was still feeling a bit spooked by the Sekhmet thing. 
Then as we climbed up and up and up and up and up, we suddenly popped out of the mist into the light. Chapman's Peak in the distance. 
There were lots of colourful and cheerful little ericas - probably Erica laeta, some of them covered with spiderwebs. According to Norman Larsen of Iziko South African Museum, this is the mist-bespattered web of a Plant Mesh-web Spider. 
And this little ant-like thing is also a spider - a species of Cydrela - (again thank you to Norman Larsen and Rudy Jocque for the id) belonging to the family Zodariidae. Not much is known about their biology he says, except that they prey on ants - hence their similar appearance. This is the first time he has heard of one on the Cape Peninsula. 
At tea Dougal found a pool to quench his thirst before plunging back into the fynbos in search of mice. 
It was Richard and Lucy's Twenty-ninth day Wedding Anniversary, 
and it was our humans's anniversary of TWENTY-NINE years. Longer than a Scottie can imagine. Pauline had bought some champagne.
A toast to the Twenty-niners from Sue and Pauline, 
and from Roos,
and from Kate from Canada and Sue
Champagne and tea on the rocks - Alice, Kate, Sue, Alpha, Pauline, Roos, Lucy and Richard - and me and Josie (who was being uncharacteristically friendly - or condescending - to me).
Hunting in the fynbos!
