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    Howard Goes to Derbyshire
    Howard Goes to Derbyshire
    Howard Goes to Derbyshire
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    Howard Goes to Derbyshire

    By Otto Vernon

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    Howard was born in the South of England and had that Great Dane tendency to be a bit arrogant if you know what I mean.

    So when the family - Jenny, Dougie, baby Jasmine, Howard and a much reviled ginger feline by the name of Elvis - moved up to Buxton in Derbyshire, he felt at first a bit out of his depth. For a start, there were a lot of unpleasant walks on the moors, admiring the views and breathing in fresh air, which he couldn’t see the point of. Then there was Letitia, a bulgy eyed Cavalier Spaniel whom he wanted to be friends with but who rather caustically pointed out that he was ‘rather large’ and seemed ‘very Southern’. Eventually Howard and his owners find friends a plenty but only after Howard is ‘saved’ by blind old Martha, who lived with her Collie, Ted, in the middle of the Derbyshire Dales. Find out how Howard was saved, and from what, in this further intriguing dog tail from the pen of Otto Vernon, the talented four-pawed author from Brighton. He is helped in his endeavours by his dotty owner whose hope is that dog lovers of all shapes and sizes, will sit back and enjoy this escapist nonsense.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOtto Vernon
    Release dateOct 22, 2019
    ISBN9781916233874
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      Howard Goes to Derbyshire - Otto Vernon

      The household plans to relocate

      Howard was intensely desirable. Several times this had caused trouble. He had been dognapped, not once but twice, each time by the same people. They had nabbed him as he sat sunning himself by the gate on a back street in Hampstead, North London, where he and his family lived. It’s nice to sit in the sun, feeling the warmth seep into your bones. You don’t expect two shadows to loom over you, to clip a lead onto your collar, and then lure you into the back of a car.

      While the experience of being nabbed had been strange and frightening for Howard the effect on his owners was more profound, especially after the second dognap. After all, they felt protective towards their dog. Although, like any Great Dane he was large and regal, to Jenny and Dougie he was like a child, the thought that someone had taken him and could be mistreating him, sickened them. They went off London in a big way, and even after getting him back the second time, at a tremendous cost, they started to see London as a dangerous place. They became ultra-security conscious and were wary of people who stopped to admire their dog.

      This new attitude had devastating consequences for Howard. It meant that he could no longer sit by the front gate, getting the odd pat from passers-by, enjoying the sun and being able to greet the postman who often offered him a treat. The house which Jenny and Dougie rented had once belonged to a famous poet, so famous that a blue plaque was fixed to the wall by the front door. When tourists stood by the gate, taking photos, Howard assumed that it was he who was the attraction, since he knew nothing about the dead poet or his plaque. He would hold up his nose in his special photograph pose and take for granted that he was the centre of attention.

      In place of all this, Howard found himself banished to a sunless courtyard round the back of the house, which was completely enclosed and devoid of passers-by. This change in his circumstances was terrible, but what he didn’t realise was that even greater changes were in store. The effect of his disappearance had made his owners want to flee the home that they had made for themselves. Increasingly, they discussed leaving London and getting back to Jenny’s roots in Derbyshire. They searched the Internet about train times and looked at property websites, as well as making exploratory trips. Each time, when they returned to London on a Sunday night, the air filling with a yellowish pollution haze around them as they approached the capital, the idea of relocating seemed to become more and more attractive to them.

      Buxton, they decided, would be ideal. It would be less dangerous, not only for Howard but for Jasmine, and it would be cheaper, as they would be able to afford to buy a house of their own and there would be no more ransoms to pay to get their dog returned. In a small, attractive town like Buxton everyone would get to know them, it would be friendly and intimate, all the things, in fact, that London wasn’t. Jenny would get a

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