Hunny Labradoodle's Helping Hand
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Hunny Labradoodle's Helping Hand is the compilation of the four short stories in the "Winnie and Hunny Speak" series.
Winnie and Hunny are two chocolate Labradoodles who live the good life in Australia, and talk all about it.
Winnie's first story begins with chat of "designer" this and that, but ends with a big, bad smell. She's an elite athlete, at the top of her game of fetch and catch. She's super fit, is Eveready for a game and often In Your Face.
Hunny is quite different. She's the compiler of this book, the arty one, not into sports and high activity like Winnie. She prefers to take life easier and have swims with the goldfish in the garden pond, or keep mum company.
Both "doods" are very helpful. They're great gardeners, in their opinion, they bark loudly at everything and they can even sweep, mop, wash the windows and carry the mail.
What more could a parent want?
Leonie van de Vorle
Leonie van de Vorle was born in New Zealand in 1954 to Dutch immigrant parents. She was a teenager during the Vietnam War and Woodstock era and then travelled through Europe in a combi-van in her early twenties. Her experiences during those years influenced her first book "The Odd One Out, Primitive Poems from The Past", published in 2012. Leonie returned to New Zealand in 1976 when tragedy struck her family with the death of her younger brother, and only sibling, in a car accident. Remaining in New Zealand, Leonie attained a BSc, married and became a mother of three, but it would be twenty five years before she would write again. In 1990 Leonie moved to the east coast of Australia with her young family. There she became a Natural Therapies Practitioner, and more recently began tracing her family history. Her interests encouraged her to write again, including publishing her brother's poems "Salamanca Summer", in 2013. In October 2013 four short stories in the "Winnie and Hunny Speak" Series were published. They are the hilarious and fascinating accounts of Winnie and Hunny's lives, Leonie's two Labradoodles, and told by them. Leonie now writes full time. She is currently working on several new books including a series on her combi-van travels, and a memoir of breakdown and recovery.
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Hunny Labradoodle's Helping Hand - Leonie van de Vorle
HUNNY LABRADOODLE’S
HELPING HAND
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by
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LEONIE VAN DE VORLE
Text Copyright © 2013 Leonie van de Vorle
All Rights Reserved
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FIRST THOUGHTS
WELCOME HOME WINNIE
OMA
FIRST NIGHT
THE FENCE:
CHALLENGE NO 1
NAMES
GAMES
WATER WOES:
CHALLENGE NO 2
OBEDIENCE:
CHALLENGE NO 3
THE GRAND LIFE
ENTER HUNNY
MEETING WINNIE
I’M AN ARIES
THE VET
A BIG SCARY PROBLEM
DIET
THE POND
NEW RULES
WINNIE TEACHES HUNNY
THE NEIGHBOURS
and
OTHER LOCALS
WE LOVE GARDENING
BARKING; WE LOVE IT!
SEATING ARRANGEMENTS
MOTHERS LITTLE HELPERS
CHALK AND CHEESE
or
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
INTRODUCTION
This ebook was first presented as a four volume short story series called WINNIE AND HUNNY SPEAK.
They are still available as individual ebooks and were created in the following order:
Hi, I’m Winnie
Winnie’s World or The Fence and Other Challenges
Hunny Love
Chalk and Cheese
They have been altered slightly for compilation but the content remains essentially the same as the original volumes.
Please note further that this is Hunny’s work. She is more into the Arts than Winnie, who is sporty.
Yeppoon, Australia, November 2013
FIRST THOUGHTS
Hi,
we’re Hunny and Winnie, two chocolate Labradoodles who live with our mum in Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia. Our story begins with Winnie’s arrival home, way back in November 2011. Her tale takes up the first half of the book because I didn’t arrive until she was about nine months old, then I have my say. So let’s get this story started.
Winnie speaks:
I was born in the Australian state of Victoria on the 1st of September 2011. I didn’t know it then but my mum was looking for a new baby. She’d had babies before, but they’re all grown up humans and have left home. She’d had fur-babies before too, and I think she was still a little bit sad about her last fur-baby Lea who went to fur-baby heaven in March 2011. She was an Airedale Terrier and she was really cool. She’s like my big sista fur-guardian angel in the sky. Mum doesn’t think Hunny and I know but every now and then we catch her looking at Lea’s picture, and we know what she’s thinking. We can feel the love they had for each other because we feel that love too.
Ha-hem, back to the subject. Oh yes, fur-babies.
The story goes, mum told us, is that one day about two years ago, she was having lunch with her friend Elaine. They were joking about being techno-grannies
which is a bit of a joke really. Mum and Elaine are alternative lefties into natural ways of doing things, not mainstream at all.
Elaine is a granny to a fur-baby too, and they were having fun at their own expense as they do when together. At about that time Elaine had just bought a new iphone 4 and mum had a new android phone and they were comparing notes. They were talking texting and things techno which I’m not really interested in, but since this story related to me, I was all ears. One thing lead to another and next thing they were talking about having designer
this and that.
Haha, as if that was them!
I’ve only met and sniffed Elaine once and I knew something was up.
Mum said they started talking and joking about sitting at their
café, doing lunch
in their designer gear,-clothes, shoes, phones, dogs. Yep, right in the heart of very casual, small Queensland coastal town Yeppoon, nearly the last place you’d find anything designer
But right after lunch when mum was home, she got on her computer and googled Labradoodles in Australia. She didn’t tell anyone she was looking for me; she was only looking after all. She told us she also googled Airedales, Welsh Terriers, Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers and Poodles. She rang her Airedale breeder but she wasn’t breeding anymore. She rang other breeders, got lots of info off the internet too. She even drew little pictures to compare us against the heights of the other breeds.