When Badger met Harley

Harley came home and we let Badger out to meet him. He woofed a lot to begin with and was growly. Fortunately Badger was unconcerned. Harley was on his harness and lead (it is a body harness, no collars for the time being) and Badger could approach.
A short while later they did the usual sniffing greeting, approved of one another's bum and decided to be friends.
Badger had taken to play fighting with Heather before this and Heather had been nipped. This is one main reason behind us deciding to get a companion dog. Harley just happened to have his pics out there at just the right time.
Badger and Harley played and played and fought (nicely) and played. Phew.

Harley the good news

So of course we had to have him. On Tuesday of half term, Heather and I went all the way to Central HK on public transport to fetch him home (1.5 hours).
He came from Lamma Island on the ferry to meet us and then had another hour home in a taxi. He was a good boy all the way. He wanted lots of reassurance and cuddles. He was a bit of a koala. Here he is:

Harley Part 2

So we found out that they had been rescued and one pup had gone to a foster carer. The other was at the rescue centre.
It did us no good at all I'm afraid to see this pic...
This is the fluffier pup freed and doing big eyes....uh oh. Showed Ian!!

Harley part 1!

Harley has a story to break your heart. Have tissues handy.
I saw a website plea (not again I hear you cry) that puppies had been found chained up in a bus depot.
"kept chained up at a bus depot, these puppies really need foster parents and/or adopters"
There were photos. I'll add some here.














I recently had Badger so felt it would be difficult to take on another pup.
The messages came faster...
From the cat carer in the area "I heard barking from the car park so I went for a look. Behind many buses I saw 2 puppies chained to the wire netting Their hair was all wet and they were shaking, after feeding they looked a bit better."



Ok, not good. Quick ask around for help.

Badger!

Badger is our little girl doggie.
She came to us on Sunday 5th October. It is amazing that she has been with us for 3 weeks already.

It all started with a website plea for help. 7 street puppies had been seen of which 3 had been rescued. They wanted to go back for the other 4.
I called and emailed and found out that Michelle (rescue lady) was going to try again that Saturday.

So Saturday night we have the call that only 1 pup has been rescued and she is a sweetie.
Sunday we go to fetch her.
Here she is on her first night back with us:
I can't believe she was that little. She still seems tiny now.

And the cats came back...

Hurrah!!
Our cats are home after 4 months in quarantine.
They seem pleased to be back with us, though a bit nervy of the new surroundings yet.

Going for a walk

The weather has cooled enough to make going for a walk a good activity. This isn't something we've done for 3 years as in AD we just taxi'd every where. Walking wasn't pleasant nor interesting.
Wednesday 1st October was Chinese National Day. So we all had a holiday. The weather was overcast but not rainy. So it seemed like a good opportunity for stepping out.
At the end of our road, is a barrier and a path goes behind it - good chance to have an explore.

Heather and Zoe walked up a hill.

This is our view when we stopped for a breather. We looked back towards our street.
We disturbed a boar who snorted at us and ran off.







Ah - this is not the lovely view we expected at the top of the hill. Hmm.








Let's take another route. Stepping out...

This was prettier but there was more road than we had puff, so we'll try this road again soon. I wonder what is at the top!

Our house

Here is our house. We have 3 floors plus a roof. We are very, very lucky.









This is a bit of our street looking down the road from the street entrance.







This is the end of our street looking towards the main road. Here be wild cows and wild boars.

New weather signals

There are three new weather signals we learnt today.

STRONG MONSOON SIGNAL

The Strong Monsoon Signal remains in force.
 Strong winds with mean speed exceeding
40 kilometres per hour are expected from the south.
Gusts will occasionally reach 100
kilometres per hour.

AMBER RAINSTORM WARNING SIGNAL

The Rainstorm Warning Signal is now Amber.
 This means that heavy rain has fallen
or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong,
exceeding 30 millimetres in an hour,
and is likely to continue.

THUNDERSTORM WARNING

THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED
AT 5:00 P.M. ON 5 OCT 2008
HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 9:00 P.M. TODAY.
A FEW SQUALLY
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
OCCUR OVER HONG KONG.

GUSTS EXCEEDING 80 KILOMETRES PER
HOUR WERE RECORDED AT TAI O
AT AROUND 6:30 P.M.

GUSTS REACHING 100 KILOMETRES PER
 HOUR OR ABOVE MAY CONTINUE
TO AFFECT HONG KONG.

Amber Rain

The depression did hit directly but was not the typhoon we expected. It had lost its wind power.

It still did have a lot of rain power though.
Today it CHUCKED it down.
We ended up with an Amber Rain alert (black rain alert means no school).
The brook is full and flowing well and I don't think the washing on the line is going to dry soon.

Knitting

Knitting - yes indeedie.
There is huge inter-house spirit here. It really involves everyone in all activities.
This time there is inter-house knitting -knitting squares in house colours.
I went into my yr 12 class today (lower 6th) and my lads were all knitting their squares. One of the young men was casting on for another one as he was struggling!
So we did a lesson that let them talk about their maths whilst their hands were occupied.

Bored now...

I think they know we are here!!
There have been no T8s for years.
Last week another one threatened but turned away at the last minute - however we are now at T1 warning - again.
The expected path, as it stands, is turning straight over HK with a direct hit at the weekend.

Now, everyone I know says that a T8 doesn't count unless it gives us a day off work. So we can hope it slows down. However, Monday is a busy day of inter-school CPD, so it would be best all round if she blew over by then.