Well in a moment of madness we decided to get a second dog, we have two cats, two rabbits so it made sense and despite being labelled Noah by Sue in Spain we pressed ahead and started looking for a puppy.
A few Internet searches later and we discovered that in Norfolk they are breeding like rabbits, but a two hour drive just to have a look seemed a bit extreme. We eventually found a litter in Royston not far from Hitchin and Regina and I went over to see them. They were seven weeks old, nine black Labrador puppies everyone just goes soppy at the site of them. They came rushing over as soon as we arrived and very quickly we were sold on one of the two biggest ones, they were call chubb and diesel. Chubb seemed a bit of a bully knocking midge and the other smaller ones out if the way. Diesel seemed calmer and very friendly. So that was it we reserved diesel and arranged to come back with the girls the following Tuesday and collect him the week after. Well we then got message saying they had been given the all clear to let them go so we were going to be able to pick them up on Tuesday. My daughter Amy knew nothing of this so Davina and I picked her up after school getting soaked by a sudden down pour in the process and then we picked up Rachel and her boyfriend Sam, collected Regina from work and with a car full headed over to Royston. Amy's face was a picture, puppies she screamed, Regina asked her why she thought we were here and then she realised we were getting another dog. Well everybody fawned over the cute little hounds and when mother dog Martha came out they all went wild, diesel went over for one last time to see her. We collected the pedigree and paid the remainder of the money and we were taking diesel home. The name by the way came from the breeders daughter and in the absence of anything better diesel it is.
