Happy New Year from Bella & Max at It's a Ruff Life

Happy 2014!  

Bella, Max and the rest of the It's a Ruff Life crew.

We hope that all our fans have a wonderful year and that you get to see the fulfilment of all your dreams.

Bella and I are in the middle of another new exciting adventure in book 7.  But look out for all our other exciting, action packed adventures in the kid's spy dog books Diamond in the Ruff, It's Ruff Life in Hollywood, It's Ruff Being Dognapped and Ruff Resort - all due to come out this year.  They are all awesome adventures that we know you will enjoy reading.

Bella & Max

 

Secret Santa at It's a Ruff Life

 

Over at It's a Ruff Life things are getting really exciting.  Today we had secret Santa at the Doglet Academy.  I bought a gift for Louise and wrapped it in the most amazing paper ever; it was a picture of the most expensive perfume you can buy - a touch of class or what!

We all had to gather in the hall at lunchtime and they even had Santa come to deliver not just the secret Santa gifts, but also proper Santa gifts that he brought for each one of us.  It was very 'bellasome!'.

I was so excited when Santa called out my name.  I danced up to the stage and jumped about a bit while I waited for my presents to be given to me.  I bet I'll be disappointed, I thought.  I'll have to practice my, this is the most wonderful thing I've ever received face.

Santa passed me a gift that was wrapped in newspaper that only had the sports coverage on the front; who in their right mind would wrap My gift in grotty newspaper?  My enthusiasm dropped to the minus scale. 

Precariously I opened my gift but it was fabulous a paw pad card for buying my fav music.  Santa's gift was way more ordinary - It was a standard fur brush set. I can put that in a charity collection after Christmas, I thought as I carried my gifts back to my place.

We finished the afternoon off with a disco and party.

Enjoy a free Christmas Game

Hi everyone, from us at It's a Ruff Life, I've decided to agree with Max which game we put on our blog.  It's great fun to play and if you're anything like Max you will end up sending Santa's sleigh the wrong way.  Click on the Free Christmas Games tab jut above this post and see how skillful you are racing Santa's sleigh.

Have fun

Bella & Max - It's a Ruff Life

Bella's Being Kind!

Because it's so close to Christmas don't forget that if you are still looking for a great Christmas present It's A Ruff Life is an awesomely funny book to read.











I thought it was too good to last.  Bella started being kind to me, I don't mean actually acknowledging the fact that I live in the same house as her, but actually taking time to talk to me.  Wonders will never cease!

She asked me if I'd try out some food she'd made, you firstly had to pick me up off the floor at the thought of Bella actually doing something other than fur, nails, fashion and dancing, of course I said yes, what dog would turn it's nose up at free food?  Oh I forgot, Bella who is always watching her weight, only food at meal times for her.

She gave me a bowl of fresh salmon mousse - it was okay but nothing amazing; I don't know why she gets so excited over salmon mousse,  I expect because Seamus makes it better than she does.

Anyway to cut a long story short this kindness lasted two weeks and for the whole of the two weeks, at some point in the day, a bowl of salmon mousse was placed under my nose.  By the end of the two weeks I was glad if I never saw another salmon again.

It was only when Bella got back from the academy that I realized why she had been so nice to me.  She had challenged Lemondrop to a salmon mousse bake off and I had been the official, this is not perfected yet, taster.

I said that I was glad that she had won, if only to stop eating bland tasting salmon mousse, I didn't tell her that part.  It didn't matter though the thoughtfulness I'd now come use to finished as abruptly as it had started.  I am now only her adopted brother to be tolerated, it feels so good to have things back to normal.

Salmon Mousse

I don't know if you know but one of my favourite foods is the fresh salmon mousse that Seamus, the chef from Beckingham Grange in it's a ruff life, makes for me.  It's 'delish'.  Well I got into an argument with Lemondrop at The Doglet Academy about who makes the best salmon mousse in the world.  I said to my, temporarily not now VBF, you wouldn't know the world's best salmon mousse if you sat in it. Any way to cut a long story short I somehow challenged her to a salmon mousse contest.  I told her that not only am I a salmon mousse tasting expert, I am also the world's top canine salmon mousse chef.  I didn't think she'd take me seriously.

I've been practicing everyday how to make salmon mousse and now I'm fed up of it and it's still another week to go before we have our big competition.

Seamus has said that he'll be on on the judging panel but so is Lemondrop's chef, so I've got to find some way of winning the competition.  I can't let Lemondrop win - I'll be the laughing stock of the school and there's no way I'm going to let that happen.

I've just had a brilliant idea - I'll slip some anchovy sauce in her mixture while she's not looking, it will make it taste really salty.
                                                       
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Guess what?  My stupendous plan worked - I won the competition, I am now the official world's best salmon mousse chef, and I didn't even have the time to doctor Lemondrop's mixture - It turns out that Lemondrop forgot to bring the fresh lemon juice and apparently that made all the difference - Yey ME! Totally BELLARISH or what!

Don't forget to check out It's a Ruff Life for some of my most amazing adventures.  The book will make a great Christmas gift!

Land Yacht Racing - Wicked

Met up with a group of friends yesterday in it's a ruff life and we went land yacht racing.  It was WICKED.  We raced across the field blown by high winds and massive sails.  It was awesome.

Those things are really difficult to steer at top speed and a couple of times a few of us overturned the carts.  We weren't really hurt; just a few bruises but it was well worth it.

I think I might take land yacht racing up as a new hobby.  It's great for developing coordination and lightening fast reflexes, which are essential for capturing the world's most dangerous criminals.

Check out my really neat adventure now; you'll love all the action. 

A Breath of Fresh Air

In it's a ruff life I went for a long cross country run this morning.  It was great to get fresh air through my nostrils instead of the awful sickly, sweet, smelling perfume that Bella wears.  There are enough flowers around Beckingham Grange without Bella smelling like one as well.

While I was out I found an abandoned case; I sniffed it and could tell that the case was booby trapped.  It smelt of the powder paint that is used to protect money in transit.

I pressed my paw cuff, took out some plastic finger print capturing discs and placed them on the case. I used the scanning device on my cuff to capture the images and upload them on to the M16 database, but nothing useful came back.

I had to cut short my run to take the case back home so that C could pick it up and take it back to MI6 for their forensic's team to work on.

It looks like I'll have another case to work on at the same time I'm keeping Lord Alfred under close surveillance.  I can't wait to get started.

YIPEE!

People LOVE ME!!  I knew they would. Who can help it?  After all I am the most popular character from it's a ruff life.

Check out what they're saying about me over at Amazon.com

Bella

Very Important Information that I just had to Tell You

What do you think to the poster I made of my totes amazing book cover, It's a Ruff Life? The word 'Awesome' springs to mind.

That's me, the one with the pink highlights.  Well the GREAT news is that you can buy this 'bellarish' book now at all the Amazon sites  or Smashwords.  Bellarish by the way means the most awesome, thing ever!

I've just been told to tell you that our (my) website - rufflifeonline.com will becoming next year.  It's going to have some great games to play and also lots of other awesome stuff.  So don't be disappointed if you can't access it at the moment.  It will be well worth the wait.