One of the family

If it wasn't for Bella, we wouldn't be walking through the park on a damp Sunday morning, with the 'kids' chatting away to each other.

And I wouldn't have had so many opportunities to chat to them about 'stuff' that worried them as they grew up.

Dogs are great.

Extras are of Bella sitting still very briefly as she waits for a ball to be thrown (in her element, muddy from leaping into muddy ditches) and a cute highland calf.