Magazine madness!

 Unbelievably, this January marks the tenth anniversary of our ‘It’s a dog’s life’ column for Sussex Living Magazine. The story of how this came about, is, like many things in life, a story of coincidences. Back in the day when Rolo, the Boss, was the sole BT reigning supreme in our household, he had his own blog as well as being an active fur on Twitter as part of the BT Posse. One day ‘Her Indoors’ was supposed to be working in London, traveling by train with a friend and colleague, from Uckfield. She parked at her friend’s house and they walked down to the station only to find that the trains weren’t running due to a lorry hitting a railway bridge. As they walked back, they passed a lovely shop called Saffron and Sycamore which sold lots of nice things, some with a significant dog theme. As they had time to spare they ventured in and ‘Her Indoors’ got chatting to the proprietor, a lovely lady called Adele, and the subject moved to dogs. ‘Her Indoors’ mentioned Rolo and his dog blog. It turned out that Adele was also the editor of what was then, Magnet magazine. Adele checked out Rolo’s blog and the idea was hatched for a magazine column. In January 2015 Rolo made his debut in a double length, celebratory style interview, and then proceeded to write a monthly column. This started as…well…a column, but soon became an entire page. ‘Him Indoors’ was tasked with the unenviable job of taking the accompanying photo and the column moved from strength to strength. It transitioned with the change of ownership from Magnet magazine to Sussex Living, with Adele still as editor, and from Rolo, to me. Fortunately me and the Boss have a very similar writing style! Anyway, we’d like to mark the anniversary with a big woof of thanks to Adele and the team at Sussex Living Magazine, together with all the folk who read it and have faith in a writing fur. We have had so much fun with this column and met lots of lovely folk. Here’s to the next ten years!