Our Old Garden, Our New Dog

Carolyn Cordon
3 min readFeb 15, 2022

Dogs come into our lives for only a short time, comparatively speaking. Our garden has been here, in some form or another since before we moved here in 1988. We’ve added bits and pieces over the years, and removed things too, but the most important thing in the garden is a dog!

We moved out to our little piece of country South Australia from a lovely inner suburban cottage, but we couldn’t breed dogs there. So yes, we had to move. Our place had kennels already, and there was a swimming pool, both selling points for us. The actual house wasn’t much, really, and still isn’t. We’re…

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Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!