{"id":659,"date":"2009-01-05T21:52:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=659"},"modified":"2009-01-05T21:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T21:52:40","slug":"gooberstanian-beard-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Gooberstanian Beard Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All &amp; Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Hope you had a lovely Christmas &#8211; we did!\u00a0 But first things first:<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Beard measurements for the <a title=\"Gooberstanian Beard Growing Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/republicofgooberstan.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/gooberstanian-beard-growing-competition.html\">Gooberstanian Beard Competition!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660\" title=\"beardcomp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/beardcomp.jpg\" alt=\"beardcomp\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/beardcomp.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/beardcomp-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 3.5 inches! My beard hasn&#8217;t grown longer but I think it has become fuller &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-580\" title=\"beardcompetition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/beardcompetition.jpg\" alt=\"beardcompetition\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/beardcompetition.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/beardcompetition-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in November the tips were only just measuring 3.5 inches. Aaah well&#8230;\u00a0 Anyway, this is my entry for the muddiest beard competition &#8211; I&#8217;m quietly confident of having one of the muddiest beards around!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-521\" title=\"mudcrust\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mudcrust.jpg\" alt=\"mudcrust\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mudcrust.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/mudcrust-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and <a title=\"Earthdog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=518\">here<\/a> is how I did it (just in case anyone wanted to try &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Nelly insisted on having her beard measured too &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-661\" title=\"nellyruler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nellyruler.jpg\" alt=\"nellyruler\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nellyruler.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nellyruler-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was not an easy job, she kept trying to eat the ruler &#8230; she eats <em><strong>everything <\/strong><\/em>at the moment &#8211; she is teething. <strong>7 new teeth!!!<\/strong> Anyway somehow we managed it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-662\" title=\"nellybeardcomp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nellybeardcomp.jpg\" alt=\"nellybeardcomp\" width=\"450\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nellybeardcomp.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/nellybeardcomp-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; 1.5 inches !!!!! Very respectable. We think she is under 25 lb but couldn&#8217;t be sure. She is a magnificent and enthusiastic raw feeder and now loves to tackle the sort of hard bones I have &#8230; I think she eats more than me!<\/p>\n<p>Christmas was wonderful but we think it should be renamed &#8230; Chaos Fest! Amelie was unwrapping her presents in the living room<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"ameliexmas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ameliexmas.jpg\" alt=\"ameliexmas\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ameliexmas.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ameliexmas-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and we were unwrapping ours in the kitchen and garden &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-666\" title=\"christmaschaos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/christmaschaos.jpg\" alt=\"christmaschaos\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/christmaschaos.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/christmaschaos-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nelly particularly liked the pink pig &#8211; it made a noise every time she squeezed it but she couldn&#8217;t figure out where the noise came from. Took her ages to figure it out \ud83d\ude1b .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-668\" title=\"piggy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/piggy.jpg\" alt=\"piggy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/piggy.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/piggy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for the Queen&#8217;s Speech she just crashed out with her favourite elk &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-669\" title=\"tirednelly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tirednelly.jpg\" alt=\"tirednelly\" width=\"450\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tirednelly.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tirednelly-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Molly and Taffy for those lovely presents, the Christmas pudding tug toy looked so delicious I ate it!!! (I don&#8217;t usually eat toys!) Nelly just loves the squeaky reindeer tug toy &#8230; and Taffy &#8230; the ball &#8230; we obviously share a passion for squeaker balls. Thanks matey!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-676\" title=\"finnicracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/finnicracker.jpg\" alt=\"finnicracker\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/finnicracker.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/finnicracker-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to Scooby for the lovely Christmas pudding and the squeaky cracker &#8230; they&#8217;re great! Thank you also to Bandit for the pink pig!!! and to Mike and Kate for the lovely Santa and Reindeer tug toys &#8211; we love them all!!!! But I think we need a bigger toy box<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-671\" title=\"toybox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/toybox.jpg\" alt=\"toybox\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/toybox.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/toybox-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Year Eve was pretty uneventful, I had a few barking sessions at fireworks but saw the New Year in with a well cooked cheese sauce dish. Nelly and I are being kept apart at such times as she isn&#8217;t really bothered about fireworks but always backs me up when we&#8217;re together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-673\" title=\"afterplay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/afterplay.jpg\" alt=\"afterplay\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/afterplay.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/afterplay-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Nelly and me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bye for now.<\/p>\n<p>Finni <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"paw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/BluePawTiny.jpg\" alt=\"paw\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All &amp; Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely Christmas &#8211; we did!\u00a0 But first things first: Here are the Beard measurements for the Gooberstanian Beard Competition! That&#8217;s 3.5 inches! My beard hasn&#8217;t grown longer but I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}