🛍️🐶🛒 Hey doggy pals! What do you get up to while your humans are shopping? Pip and Dad used to hang out together taking pictures. Here’s a photo we took in 2024 but never posted before! 📸 #ThrowbackThursday #DogsOfBlueSky #GoldenRetrievers 🐕🐾 What’s better than one Pip? Two Pips! 😃

Happy Easter, Friends! 🥚🐶🐣 Here’s a memory of Pip the Golden guarding the eggs on Easter Sunday 2021 (at least until he decided that he had another engagement)! #HappyEaster #DogsOfBlueSky 🐕😀🐾

A view across the cricket pitch on beautiful Royal Tunbridge Wells Common. The Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall commons in the UK are currently up for sale. A campaign encouraging locals to pledge sums towards the cost of buying the commons - to protect them from future development - is underway.

Nala and I are great 😀👍

Happy #StDavidsDay to all our Welsh pals! Pic: Mt Edgcumbe, Tunbridge Wells 2021 #DogsOfBluesky 📸

Part of our national heritage: the Golden Retriever! #NationalGoldenRetrieverDay Oh, and historic #CorfeCastle pictured from the heritage Swanage Railway, too! A #TongueOutTuesday memory of Pip the Golden. Pics: 2019 and 2023.

Greetings from Happy Valley! Pip with his Dad four years ago today on one of our favourite walks. #ThrowbackThursday (24 July 2021) ⏳

Our gentle, loyal and loving Pip the Golden Retriever was born on this day in 2010. Happy Heavenly 15th birthday old friend. 🐾

📻🌤️🎙️ Pip’s Dad is playing a great music mix on West Kent Breakfast today between 7 and 10am (UK time, Friday 25 April). You can also hear a round up of West Kent news, a local sport preview and news of upcoming events. You’re welcome to listen: westkentradio.co.uk/player/

📻😃🎙️ Dad is the breakfast DJ on West Kent Radio again tomorrow from 7 to 10am (UK time, Friday, 25 April). Looks like he’s got lots of great records ready for the show, as well as local news, sport and events. Feel free to listen from 7am, Friday: www.westkentradio.co.uk/player/

Pip’s Dad plays a great music mix on West Kent Radio’s breakfast show today - 7-10am (UK time, Friday 18 April). He’ll also have a round up of West Kent news, up-coming events and a preview of the weekend’s local sport. You’re welcome to listen: westkentradio.co.uk/player/

🎶📻🎶 Dad is presenting the Breakfast Show on West Kent Radio today, 7-10am (UK time - Friday, 11 April). He’ll play music from the ’60s to now, including two birthday artists and a ‘guilty pleasure’. There’s also local news and sport. Listen here: www.westkentradio.co.uk

🌤️🐶📸 Pip was an agile dog, so let’s leap onto a trend! #ThrowbackThursday ⏳

On Golden Pond. 🌤️ Pip loved water. Whether it was the sea, a lake, puddle or muddy ditch, he would be in there enjoying a swim or wallow. 🐶 #ThrowbackThursday (pic: spring 2011) ⏳

Three years ago today, it was announced that Pip would host The ‘Golden’ Hour on West Kent Radio! 📻 It was, of course, April Fools Day - but Pip did enjoy his proverbial 15 minutes of fame in the local media! 🎙️

Rock Dog. 🎸🤟 Each day, Pip walked past the Wellington Rocks on his way to The Pantiles. We still do “Pip’s Walk” most mornings. #ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2020) 📸

🌳🐶🌤️ When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle 🎶 #ThrowbackThursday (21 March 2020)

🪲🐶🙀 How confident would you be if you had to remove a tick safely from your dog? If you wish to reply, please leave a comment (we’re doing some research for a possible podcast). Thank you. Pic: #ThrowbackThursday (2020)

🍷🐶🍷 More than 250 bottles of wine tunnelled their way out of our cellar last night. It was The Grape Escape. 🍇 #BadJokes #GoldenRetrievers #MondayMemory (Pic: 2017)

👨‍🎨🐶📸 Vincent Van Dog. #ThrowbackThursday (this week 2023) ⏳

❄️🐶🌳 It snowed in Royal Tunbridge Wells two years ago this week. #ThrowbackThursday (March 2023) ⏳

❄️🐶📸 Pip was enjoying the snow two years ago today (8 March 2023). #GoldenRetrievers 🐕😀🐾

❄️🐶🌳 How cold my tum, Tiddley-Pip. #ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2019, with apologies to A.A. Milne). 🧸

☀️🐶📸 I like your stile! #ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2022) ⏳ Pip contemplates jumping through a style or stile that’s known as a ‘squeeze stile’ on one of his favourite walks in East Sussex.

☀️🐶🏖️ I'm picking up good vibrations He's giving me the excitations 🎶 #ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2023) ⏳

Café Society. ☕️ Pip loved his visits to the dog-friendly Pup Cup coffee shop in Tonbridge High Street. 🐶 #ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2024) ⏳

The Golden Age of Steam. 🐶 #ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2021) 🐕⏳🐾

An apple. 🍏 And a Golden Delicious. 🐶 #ThrowbackThursday 🐕😀🐾

Happy #ValentinesDay from The Hound Of L❤️ve! Friday #Flashback (pic 2024)

🏈🐶📸 It’s Supper Bowl Sunday! 🎉 #SuperBowlSunday #SuperBowlLIX  (pic: a memory of Pip from 2024)

🌤️🐶👨‍🍳 Mutt and Chef. #ThrowbackThursday (pic 2024) 📸

🌧️🐶🌧️ Never let the rain dampen your spirits! Whatever the weather, Pip loved his daily walk along The Pantiles. #ThrowbackThursday (Mar 2024) 🐕😀🐾

🌤️🐶👀 All eyes on Pip: it’s #TongueOutTuesday! 📸 (pic 2023)

🌳🐶🌤️ The sun always shines on a Golden Retriever. #GoldenRetrieverDay (pic Aug 2024) 📸

🌳🐶⛅️ Pausing to rest his paws. Pip loved his daily walks along The Pantiles in Royal Tunbridge Wells. #ThrowbackThursday (26 Aug 2024) ⏳

🪨🐶⛅️ Sitting On His Rock Of The Day. A memory of Pip the Golden Retriever surveying his home town from a favourite vantage point back in 2019. #ThrowbackThursday #DogsOfBluesky 🐕😀🐾

27 January 2025.

Winter walkies in 2012 when Pip was aged just two and a half. #ThrowbackThursday 🐕⏳🐾

🌤️🐶❄️ Golden light on a winter morning. #ThrowbackThursday (2022) 🐕😀🐾

Yesterday was #NationalWinnieThePoohDay! What a good excuse to post a pic of Pip at Gills Lap, called ‘Galleons Lap’ in the Pooh stories. 🧸 Gills Lap is by ‘The Enchanted Place’ and is a clump of Scots Pines. Nobody, not even Christopher Robin, could count them, but there are either 63 or 64. 🐾

Nala has been doing the same ritual before every walk for almost 10 years now

I walk the line! 🎶 Our Pip was so happy whenever he walked The Forest Way, the disused Groombridge to Eridge railway line. 🌤️ It’s now a 10-mile long linear county park and a wonderful place to walk a dog. 🐶 #ThrowbackThursday (pic: Feb 2024) ⏳

Golden hour reflections. 🌤️ Pip next to his transport, affectionately known as ‘The Pipmobile’. 🚙 #ThrowbackThursday (pic: Feb 2019) 🐶

⚽️🐶🏆 Pip shows his appreciation for football’s #FACup Third Round in this pic taken this weekend in 2023! 🙄 #GoldenRetrievers #DogsOfBluesky 🐕😀🐾

A memory of Pip ‘First Footing’ our Scottish Granny in 2022. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Traditionally, a first footer is the first person to enter the home in the new year and brings good luck. Pip was bringing gifts of shortbread and coal to symbolise prosperity. 🍪😃 #NewYearsDay #DogsOfBluesky 🐕🐾

A rare view of Mars, the Milky Way and Dog Head Nebula in cosmic alignment. 💫 We took this picture last year as a reminder NOT to give dogs chocolate, as it is toxic to them. Remember: call a vet immediately if a dog eats chocolate, so they can assess any poisoning risk. #Flashback (Dec 2023) 📸

’Twas the morning after Christmas and all through the house nothing stirred, not even a dog. 🎄 #ThrowbackThursday (December 2023)

Making snow angels! 👼 Pip the Golden Retriever loved the snow throughout his long life. 💖 #ThrowbackThursday (December 2022) ⏳

’Tis the season to be jolly 🎶 Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la, la 🙄 #ThrowbackThursday (December 2023) 🎅🏼