JessandCos

just a quick hi to everyone. My year has been eventful, my son is now in Austraiia and showing no signs of coming home. I did my Close Protection course at the beginning of the year, and have since embarked on a new career looking after bands and vvvips. My daughter started UEA in Norwich last weekend, and my partner of two years and I have decided to take the plunge and start living together. We needed to be in a specific area for various family reasons hers and mine and we saw a house today that is happy to have my dogs and is in the right area. My partner is going self employed and has resigned her job and has said goodbye to her career of 20 plus years. It is a whole new start, and it has not only my daughters blessing but my parents too - which surprised me - it is exciting and scary at the same time.

just thought I would pop by and say hi - not been here in a while. News from me is my son is now living in Austrailia after graduating from Exeter Uni in June, my daughter is hopefully going to UEA in Norwich in September. I am now a qualified bodyguard and first responder - I did both courses in January, and it has opened a world of opportunities being female. I am also looking to move to the Cotswold area after September with my two dogs and fingers crossed my partner - dependent on her job/work front. So far 2013 has been hard dealing with the fact my kids have grown up and moving away from home. I seem to have come out the other side and things are looking rosier and more challenges ahead

just a hi from me - the festival season is now over, spent the summer working at festivals from Glastonbury to Harvest @ Jimmys food festival - came home on monday and slept for 20 hours solid. now for freshers, carnage, Christmas parties etc up until New Year with a bit of footy watch thrown in My dogs are still olovely both act and think they are puppies although thye are nearly 8 now, still love country life and only go back to LOndon for work and seeing my parents - which is about very six months. My kids aregrowing up fast my son will be in his 3rd year at uni and my daughter is her second year at college. How time flies I have been here for 4 years now and can't imagine being anywhere else

Have not been around for ages nice to see alot of familiar names. I am now a "Door Supervisor" Or Bouncer, I am self employed and work keeps me ver busy, especially in the summer with all the festivals and events. My dogs are as mad but as loving as ever and they love the forest - so how is everyone - seems like forever

Just thought I would pop bye and say hi, not posted in a long while. Just thought I would do an update for everyone Life in the New Furest cannot be beaten, my son is now ar uni in Exeter and my daughter will be doing her GCSE's. I have been managing a pub for the last year and should hopefully be buying it in the next few months, and will be looking for a live-in manager. Until that happens I will be doing security at events like Cowes week and the boat show and also the doors on a few clubs in southampton. My dogs are forest dogs through and through, both very healthy and permanently tired - and skanky and smelly Life is excellent, in every way

Living in the new forest, there are always cows, calves, ponies, foals, pigs and deer wandering randomly - in the roads and anywhere else. I always try and give cows and ponies a wide berth, and my dogs are off lead all the time and they are used to being around them, and rarely bat an eyelid these days It is a sad story, but even around here, lots of the locals are terrified of cows , but animals are unpredictable and can easily be spooked, and all animals are naturally protective of their young.

Thank you for the birthday wishes , just lurk alot these days and rarely post. I had a lovely day with my closest friends, gf and my kids - we had a lovely bbq and way too much red wine

I have had my house done, and it makes a huge difference to bills and warmth in the house. Depending on the age of the house, they might need to make a few penny sized holes in the outside walls, they all fill them immediately. This tells them if the house has any wall insulation. At the same time they looked at my loft, and when they did the cavity walls they also insulated my loft. Re the walls adjoining houses, they put in a "brush" which is used to seperate the two houses, never heard of foam shooting out the loft though. Stage three is next week, when I get my new boiler installed

My oldest friends that I have known since I was 5 is still in London, she travels alot 6 months of the year, but we are always there for each other and we can pick up where we left off. I have a another close friend down here in the forest, we fell out badly for about a year, and could not talk or see each other, since I bit the bullet nearly a year ago, we have been slowly getting back on track. She has her own views on me coming out etc which I mainly choose to ignore. We go back about 13 years as well, so she knows me better than most. I have met alot of people down here, if there is anything involving relationships etc etc I have my two close gay boys who I can talk to, as they are better than most women , and I know who would stand by me and who would walk away. It is quality of friendships not quantity that is important and I would much rather have a handful I can trust than 10 than I can't

Having worked in a club for the best part of a year, and having an active social life along with my own home grown teenagers nothing shocks or surprises me I spent the weekend in bournemouth, and we were out on saturday, two girls came into the pub, wearing clothes if you can call them that, that left nothing to the imagination whatsoever, and very little of them My only thought was they must be be f*** freezing , as we were both wearing, a variety of fleeces, t-shirts and thermals. If you are comfortable in what you are wearing, go for it and it really does not matter what other think.

RMF : Tonight we are going to the beach for the QE2 farewell , I might actually take a decent camera, if I remember. RMF: Just had my hair cut and coloured

I will be out again tomorrow, with my two, there are so many woods, and hiding places, but I will do what I can,

I have just sent Corinne a text, offering to help out all day tomorrow. I know the area very well, and all the surrounding walks, car parks etc.as I walk in the forest every day. I can be there from 9 am on wards with my to dogs , for as many hours as you want If anyone wants to update me, please PM me for my number

We orginally had Scrappy a JRT, to keep her company when she was 8 months old we got Jessie a GSD x. Jessie had been brought up with her littermates and then came to us. We lost Scrappy six months later due to suspected poisoning. Jessie howled, whined, and stopped eating and went into serious depression. We had not planned on getting another dog so quickly but on the vets advice, we did, as she was rapidly loosing weight and had forgotton how to wag her tail After a long talk with both my kids, we decided what dog we wanted. My kisa description " a puppy or young dog, GSDx, MUST be black, with a bit of collie as well " I looked on another forum, and Cosmo jumped out he fitted the bill perfectly. He arrived at our house within a week and Jessie from that moment on, started eating, wagging her tail abd grinning from ear to ear. Cosmo I think found us, and it was the bext decision we made otherwise we probably would have lost Jessie too. Jessie is now 5 and Cosmo is nearly five, they are great together, although they are chalk and cheese. Good luck with whatever you decide

I live and walk in the New Forest everyday. During winter a large percentage of car parks are closed anyway, which limits the amount of places you can walk. By making dog free zones, it means that you will be concentrating the dog owners in specific areas which imo will cause more problems. Even in the height of summer it is possible to find a car park with one car in it, and not see a soul. Unfortunately the "touristy" areas are the ones that suffer as people do not keep their dogs under control, and the ponies get stressed as "tourists" try to pet the foals, ponies, and cows . There is a small element of dogs that do cause problems mainly with the deer, not the ponies and these are the ones that should be targetted not all dog owners Below is a link of the greater implications that affect all horse owners and dog owners, which is why NFDOG have taken this on at the same meeting on the 12th October to get everyone involved. Daily Echo There is also talk about introducing toll booths to get in to the forest as well and a number of other ludicrous ideas - just gets worse week by week : Toll booths in the New Forest