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Pip the Golden Retriever
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I share my sometimes-offbeat take on life as a #GoldenRetriever. I like #DogFriendly places, #walkies, #history and #BadJokes, and would love you to follow me!
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Greetings from Happy Valley! Pip with his Dad four years ago today on one of our favourite walks.

#ThrowbackThursday (24 July 2021) ⏳
Pip the Golden Retriever is sitting facing towards you in the middle distance to the left of the picture with a happy, friendly smile on his face and his tongue hanging out. His Dad is crouched down next to him, with one knee on the ground. He is wearing light brown trousers and a blue coat and is waving in your direction. He appears to be waving and shouting a friendly greeting to you. Both are perched on a flat area of rock on an otherwise steep slope on the side of the valley, which falls away steeply to the right. There are the remains of two tree trunks emerging from the rock they are on, which have had their tops cut off and create a dramatic setting for the photograph. There are more trees in the background covered in green leaves, some growing from lower in the valley. Brackenbury clings to the steep side of the valley in the foreground.
July 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Our gentle, loyal and loving Pip the Golden Retriever was born on this day in 2010.

Happy Heavenly 15th birthday old friend. 🐾
July 7, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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📻🌤️🎙️

Pip’s Dad is playing a great music mix on West Kent Breakfast today between 7 and 10am (UK time, Friday 25 April).

You can also hear a round up of West Kent news, a local sport preview and news of upcoming events.

You’re welcome to listen:
westkentradio.co.uk/player/
April 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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📻😃🎙️

Dad is the breakfast DJ on West Kent Radio again tomorrow from 7 to 10am (UK time, Friday, 25 April).

Looks like he’s got lots of great records ready for the show, as well as local news, sport and events.

Feel free to listen from 7am, Friday:
www.westkentradio.co.uk/player/
April 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Pip’s Dad plays a great music mix on West Kent Radio’s breakfast show today - 7-10am (UK time, Friday 18 April).

He’ll also have a round up of West Kent news, up-coming events and a preview of the weekend’s local sport.

You’re welcome to listen:
westkentradio.co.uk/player/
April 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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🎶📻🎶

Dad is presenting the Breakfast Show on West Kent Radio today, 7-10am (UK time - Friday, 11 April).

He’ll play music from the ’60s to now, including two birthday artists and a ‘guilty pleasure’. There’s also local news and sport.

Listen here:
www.westkentradio.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Pip was an agile dog, so let’s leap onto a trend!

#ThrowbackThursday ⏳
An AI generated picture of a very life-like Pip the Golden Retriever toy in a plastic flat pack. He standing facing right to left, but with his head turned towards you. He is looking at you with his brown eyes and has a big smile on his face. His fur is deep golden on his back, head and ears, but lighter on his legs, chest and face. The pack also contains his multicoloured striped rainbow lead, a yellow collar, two brown food bowls filled with food, a blue water bowl and a tennis ball.
April 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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On Golden Pond. 🌤️

Pip loved water. Whether it was the sea, a lake, puddle or muddy ditch, he would be in there enjoying a swim or wallow. 🐶

#ThrowbackThursday (pic: spring 2011) ⏳
Pip the Golden Retriever is standing in a pond, with calm water in front of him and ripples lapping around his body. He is facing from left to right, with his face and head reflected in the water towards the right of the picture. His fur - deep golden on his back and a little lighter on his face - is soaking wet. His brown eyes are shining and he has a serious expression on his face. He is holding his tail out of the water behind him.
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Three years ago today, it was announced that Pip would host The ‘Golden’ Hour on West Kent Radio! 📻

It was, of course, April Fools Day - but Pip did enjoy his proverbial 15 minutes of fame in the local media! 🎙️
Pip the Golden Retriever is sitting on the presenter’s chair in the main studio of West Kent Radio with them microphone in front of him. He had a big retriever smile on his face.
April 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Rock Dog. 🎸🤟

Each day, Pip walked past the Wellington Rocks on his way to The Pantiles. We still do “Pip’s Walk” most mornings.

#ThrowbackThursday
(pic: 2020) 📸
Pip the Golden Retriever is standing facing towards you on a patch of green grass. He is looking at you with his big brown eyes and has a smile on his face with his tongue hanging out. Behind him, there’s a large outcrop of grey sandstone rocks, with mature trees behind.
March 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle 🎶

#ThrowbackThursday (21 March 2020)
March 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🪲🐶🙀

How confident would you be if you had to remove a tick safely from your dog?

If you wish to reply, please leave a comment (we’re doing some research for a possible podcast). Thank you.

Pic: #ThrowbackThursday (2020)
Pip the Golden Retriever is sitting on a grassy area facing towards you and looking you in the eye with his big brown eyes. He was aged 10 when the picture was taken and the fur on his face is just starting to go a little grey. He has a serious expression on his face, but looks slightly comedic as he is sitting on a clump of daffodils, some of which are to the left while others have sprung up between his front legs. There’s a brick pavement - sidewalk to American pals - behind him, as well as two wooden benches and a hedge.
March 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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🍷🐶🍷

More than 250 bottles of wine tunnelled their way out of our cellar last night.

It was The Grape Escape. 🍇

#BadJokes #GoldenRetrievers
#MondayMemory (Pic: 2017)
Pip the Golden Retriever is sitting on a yellowy-brown wicker chair facing towards you. He has a serious, but friendly, expression on his face. His fur is deep golden on his chest and shoulders, but lighter around his legs. His face is a deeper golden colour than in recent years: he was just seven years old when the picture was taken and his face had not yet turned grey. He is in a conservatory, with large windows behind him offering a view into his family’s back garden.
March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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👨‍🎨🐶📸

Vincent Van Dog.

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(this week 2023) ⏳
Pip the Golden Retriever is standing to the left of the picture facing right, but has his head turned towards you. He has a serious, but friendly, expression on his face. Behind him, there is a large plate glass shop window starting at ground level. Inside the window, there’s a large print of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night Over the Rhône, which features large yellow stars reflected across the water. The window is also reflecting a hedge, trees and house behind where you are standing which almost appear to be part of the painting. There is snow on the ground.
March 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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❄️🐶🌳

It snowed in Royal Tunbridge Wells two years ago this week.

#ThrowbackThursday
(March 2023) ⏳
Pip the Golden Retriever is standing facing towards you in a snowy park. He has his head turned to the right. Behind him in the middle distance there’s a small lake with mature snow-covered trees behind. The land rises to the left of the picture and there’s a building of some sort in the far distance at the top of the small hill.
March 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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❄️🐶📸

Pip was enjoying the snow two years ago today (8 March 2023).

#GoldenRetrievers 🐕😀🐾
March 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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How cold my tum, Tiddley-Pip.

#ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2019, with apologies to A.A. Milne). 🧸
Pip the Golden Retriever is lying on a snow covered lawn facing left to right in his back garden. He has his head turned towards you with his chin lying on the snow and is looking at you with big brown eyes. The fur on his floppy ears and back is dark brown, while that on his face is lighter. There is a wooden panel fence and a mature, but leafless, tree behind him.
March 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I like your stile!

#ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2022) ⏳

Pip contemplates jumping through a style or stile that’s known as a ‘squeeze stile’ on one of his favourite walks in East Sussex.
Pip the Golden Retriever is facing towards you looking between two upright wooden posts in a fence. Each slips outwards from a narrow gap at the bottom with a wooden step. Pip, who is in bright sunlight, is looking at you with big brown eyes and has a smile on his face with his tongue hanging out. The stile is slightly shaded, but Pip is in bright sunshine which is making his fur shine. The fur on his face was greying with age when the photo was taken almost two years ago, giving him a dignified - but handsome - slightly elderly look. Pip and the stile are in sharp focus, while a grassy hill behind him is in soft focus. This type of ‘squeeze’ stile is a simple and effective, and lasts for many years against the elements. The narrow gap is thinner at the base and broadens towards the top, so most people can navigate these easily but they remain impassible to cows, sheep and other types of livestock.
March 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I'm picking up good vibrations
He's giving me the excitations 🎶

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(pic: 2023) ⏳
Pip the Golden Retriever is sitting in a sun-filled room facing towards you on a small purple sofa. He is looking at you with his brown eyes and has a huge retriever smile on his face with his pink tongue handing out. Behind him, while lettering on a back poster say: “Good vibes only.” The sunlight is making Pip golden fur shine. It’s dark golden around his shoulders and on his back, but lighter on his stomach, legs and face. The picture was taken in September 2023 at a Golden Retriever Cafe held by POP+BARK, which hosts breed-specific dog cafes and mixed-breed events.
March 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Café Society. ☕️

Pip loved his visits to the dog-friendly Pup Cup coffee shop in Tonbridge High Street. 🐶

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(pic: 2024) ⏳
Pip the Golden Retriever is lying facing towards you on a grey coloured chez longue by the front window of the pretty Pup Cup cafe. The morning sun streaming through the window is making his golden fur shine as he looks to the left - presumably, towards the counter where coffee, cakes and creamy ‘Pup Cup’ treats are served to dogs and their people. Pip the Golden Retriever is wearing his multicoloured striped rainbow lead and collar. The owner of @the_pup_cup1 and her team are passionate about dogs and their coffee shop, which serves cakes, snacks and delicious creamy doggy treats called Pup Cups. Dogs and their people hang out at the cafe, chatting with each other to pass the time. It’s ideally placed for coffee and cake after a walk along the Medway or at the old Tonbridge Racecourse Park.
February 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The Golden Age of Steam. 🐶

#ThrowbackThursday (pic: 2021) 🐕⏳🐾
Pip the Golden Retriever is sitting to the left of the picture on a raised area covered with roofing felt that has brick walls. He is looking straight at you and has a smile on his face with his tongue visible. Behind him and facing slightly towards your right is a large express locomotive. Its gleaming green bodywork is shining in the sun, and it has a red buffer beam at the front. This picture was taken at the Spa Valley Railway’s terminal at Tunbridge Wells West station. The locomotive is a 4-6-2 Battle of Britain class Pacific designed by the Southern Railway’s chief engineer Oliver Bullied. It has had the original streamlined casing that was typical or these locomotives removed. When the photo was taken, the loco was named Sir Keith Park after the World War Two RAF 11 Group leader during the Battle of Britain. It was temporary named 303 Squadron last year to commemorate the role that Polish pilots of this squadron played in the battle.
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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An apple. 🍏

And a Golden Delicious. 🐶

#ThrowbackThursday 🐕😀🐾
A tasty looking apple sits in the foreground placed upon an upturned plastic container placed upon a cream coloured living room rug. It looks like a Braeburn or a Gala apple and is in sharp focus. Pip the Golden Retriever is lying behind it, in slightly softer focus, facing towards you and looking at you with big brown eyes. He is resting his chin on a corner of the rug, but is lying mainly on a wooden floor. There is a window, radiator and what looks like a DVD player and games console in the background.
February 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Happy #ValentinesDay from The Hound Of L❤️ve!

Friday #Flashback (pic 2024)
Pip the Golden Retriever is lying on the living room carpet facing right to left, but with his head raised and looking at you. He has a serious - but friendly - expression on his face. He is wearing sunglasses with heart-shaped red frames. He looks well groomed and fluffy, with his golden fur shining in the Valentine’s Day morning sunshine.
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🏈🐶📸

It’s Supper Bowl Sunday! 🎉

#SuperBowlSunday #SuperBowlLIX 
(pic: a memory of Pip from 2024)
A close-up portrait picture of Pip the Golden Retriever standing patiently at his stainless steel food bowl. He is no double waiting for his supper, but his bowl appears to be empty. His face and head are in sharp focus, and much of his face is covered with fresh, dark mud from outside. Pip is staring with some intensity at something slightly to your right, and has a quizzical expression on his face. The rest of his body is in soft focus and appears not to be covered in mud, suggesting that Pip has been looking through a muddy hole under the garden fence made by a local badger.
February 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM