Hello blogger,

Such a sad thing with this Oil Spill. Very depressing news at the moment! Truly hope it turns out to be less catastrophic than expected  

Many thanks to those people who were kind enough to support our 'Strays Of Abu Dhabi' Charity Art Auction at the Millennium Hotel. Here's a few photos of the event. And don't forget to pop back to www.straysofabudhabi.com from time to time, to see the new dogs (and cats) up for adoption.

Sadly, the approaching summer can be a busy time of year, when some people return home for the holidays, without their pets. This is how many dogs are found wandering, abandoned!

Big thanks to our jazz band, that's Andy Tyson on keyboard and Dennis Mercardo on bass guitar. And big thanks to our small army of volunteers too!

Also thanks to Raymond Kuceli our charismatic auctioneer from Australia, for bringing his 20 of Real Estate auctioneering experience to our event.

Anyway, quite suprising to discover how hectic my life had become organizing this event - especially compared to my usual quiet life.

So, I'm currently working on some great commissions. And of course you can contact me for your art on questions@moorethanart.com I love a challenge with my art and love to try new subjects. Working on my first Saluki dog at the moment and it's going really well..................

I've always wondered why dogs dig in a desert by the way. I discovered on the Discovery Channel the other day that one foot down in the sand, is about 60% cooler! So, there you go!

I think our dogs are definitely enjoying seeing a little bit more of mummy!

Very cosy. Having a snooze. What better thing to do in a hot summer................... Well, I'm calling it summer if that alright with you, since it's already hit the 40 degrees!

Caught lovely Suki chewing a huge bug in the garden the other day. Scared the hell out of me, but she looked at me, crunching away. I grabbed it off her and hid it in the bushes. I think she wondered why? So, did I really, since she'd had the best of it! It was like a giant black stag-beetle, without the stag/ antlers bit. But it clearly had wings......well, it did have  

I guess, Suki learned how to survive in this environment. She also has a clear hankering for black, plastic bags - you can guess why. Food, is food, after all! She has a hard time ignoring the household rubbish......and who can blame her. We bought bird-seed, so that we didn't feed the birds with bread, since of course she stretched up to eat that. Now, we catch her chewing bird-seed instead. The other day she looked up guiltily, with her whole snout covered in seeds. And of course what goes in, does of course come out.......looking exactly the same.

Just must include my beautiful Hibiscus pot plant. It's such a novelty for me to have flowers like this growing in the garden. Mind you, it's wilting and struggling in the heat now......as are we!

Oh dear, it's 6 pm and the girls have settled down to sleep! That's not good news now, since they like to wake up with the dawn at the moment....................which is 5:30 am