The New Arrival - 7th October 2007

Helen has wanted a dog for years, Steve likes dogs but didn't want to take on the responsibility of owning one. We haven't been able to have any more pets since 2004 when we found out we were being made redundant and planned to travel around the world.

Anna worked with someone on Hotel Babylon who had a Shih Tzu with puppies. We had to travel up to London to pick her up. She was called Emma (they named the puppies after characters on Hotel Babylon) but we renamed her Poppy.

She is black and white and was nine weeks old when we picked her up. She was really well behaved on the long drive home.

For the next few nights she was crying and whining all night long but now we just get woken up early!

She is quite well behaved and very cute and we've have had lots of people over to meet her. She is growing very quickly and will soon be all grown up.