Hi Wolfbane. Thanks for the warm welcome. I agree! This is a great place but I can't tear myself away from it at times! I see from your profile that you are a dog trainer/groomer! I would love to hear more about it, if you didn't mind - either privately or at the pet forum! It's just that I am currently doing an evening course in dog grooming/behaviour and animal care and I am loving every minute of it! There is such a lot to learn and I never thought I would enjoy it as much as I am. I hope to go on to the next modules in January. I have also started a small dog-walking service in the evening and it's going really well.I am meeting wonderful people as well as wonderful dogs, earning pocket money to pay for my course and getting exercise! I work in human education during the day but I would much rather be dealing with dogs!
Gaelic for dog = 'Madra'.
All the best
Clairey x

A belated welcome, Claire! We have green eyes in common, but I do believe yours are so much lovelier than mine! Glad you're a part of the forums. I told my daughter someone in Ireland had read my devotionals, and that really tickled her, and me, too!

Donna

Hi Claire, I did finally get to see those beautiful green eyes. You are indeed a lovely Irish lassie (Boy do I ever sound Irish?)

I previously posted that I had no Irish or Scottish blood, but my granny was a Cherokee Indian and my Grandpa was a very pale Englishman.
My Daddy had blue green eyes which I think means my granny had to have a recessive gene for blue or green eyes. We always wondered how that happened.
It was all explained when I took a Cherokee history course. Seems being Indian was never a racial issue for the Cherokee, but a cultural one. Some Irish and Scottish colonists were addopted by the Cherokee because they had similar cultures and they married Cherokee women. (You have to have a clan to be Cherokee and clans and property were passed through the females)

Anyway all that means we might be kinfolks.
Interesting huh?
smile

Oh boy, we gotta get wolfbane, chatty, and claire together. I bet you're all busy in the pet forum.