My GALLERY

Argos, my beloved Friend, has been this past 15 years
the epicentre of my life: my Sun and my Moon
and every beautiful thing that deserves tears...

his poignant absence is and will be everywhere,
every remaining day of my life...



My first year
23rd April 2008-09


I was very young, playing with friends.


Wearing a red jersey


Playing with pebbles while landscaping one of my gardens


Enjoying the sun in one of my gardens



My second year
2009-10


At my home on a sunny day, resting on the terrace
between the olive tree and my pond.


Watching from a window at home, a rainy day.



My third year
2010-11


Walking on the beach a cloudy winter day


Exploring the beach among the dunes


Me on the sea

Enjoying a promenade on St Nicholas' garden



My fourth year
2011-12



My fifth year
2012-13



My sixth year
2013-14


At Kenwood a Summer day

Walking in Hampstead

Investigating in the wood

Argos in the arms of Paula Mariana Meizoso,
during a day in Hampstead Heath, June 2013



Best friends

'In the arms of my best companion', by Nicolas-Alexandre [2009]



'With my best companion at The Champion in Notting-Hill, London
[31 Oct 2012]



My seven year 2014/15
With a best friend at the beach



April 2014



My eight year
2015-16




Walking joyful to the Olympic Park Cafe
[April 2016]



My ninth year
2016-17


23rd April 2017, my ninth birthday


Enjoying a Japanese Garden from my carrier



[Summer Nap at one of my gardens, Homer House]

My tenth year
2017-18


Breakfast at a local pubs




From my sojourn in Japan,
March & April 2018



Sleeping a nap on a couch at Lala House, my home in Yokohama, Tokyo (March 2018)




Bravely standing up after 6 hours of heart surgery at Jasmine Veterinary Cardiovascular Medical Center, 9th April 2018


With best friend during one of my 3 visits per day at Jasmine Clinic, after open heart surgery to repair the mitral valve



My eleventh year
2018-19

From my sojourn in Japan,
March, April & May 2018



Sojiji Budhist Temple, one of the many beautiful temples I visited in Japan, May 2018

Buddhist temple & cemetery near Lala House



My twelfh year
2019-20



Enjoying a nap at home



My thirteenth year
2020-2021


[At my Olive Tree in St Nicholas, July 2020]



Summer in the Silver Coast



My fourteenth year
2021-22


With my good friend Darwin, the Shiba Inu from Osaka, Japan
[photo by Mami Miyamura]



Summer in Portugal



My fifteenth year
2022- 16th December 2022



Argos drinking water at a Cafe, Summer 2022


Evening walk on Atlantic beach


September 2022 (walking again after stroke 4 days earlier)




Argos waiting for a friend at a Cafe, Summer 2022









Dreaming, on one of my beds, a lazy morning at Siddhartha House


'All The Things You Are'


by Ella Fitzgerald




[Gilberto Gil interprets
'Você e Eu' (Carlos Lyra)]



'True love'
between Argos & best friend


recorded by Patrick Early



Walk around Center-Kita, Yokohama, Tokyo
where I lived 3 months of Spring 2018


You see 'Lala House' around minute 5.15



Buddhist & Shinto Temples in Yokohama
March, April and May 2018

[Exploring a bamboo forest in Yokohama, March 2018]






Some of the many beautiful Buddhist and Shinto temples I visited in Japan during my stay in March, April and May 2018



Kanyetothe Temple, May 2018



Sankeien Garden and Temple, April 2018


Hongakuji Temple, April 2018


Tsuzuki Shinto shire, April 2018


Daihonzan Soji-ji Temple, April 2018


Jomyo-ji Temple, May 2018



Enjoying a meal with my friends at Jasmine Clinic

[Monday 9th to Saturday 14th April 2018, while I was recovering from open heart surgery, my Friends visited me 3 times per day, 1h30 minutes each, to speed my recovery.]



Talking with my friend on the London overground


[photo by Gary Knowles, Jul 2013]



On the train to The City, one early morning


[15 May 2015,
photo by Benjamin Carew]



At table in Kenwood


[enjoying a Summer day]



At the junction of the Ravensbourne and Thames rivers


A break during a promenade in a hot September evening (2012)



The Grooming Room

This photo of me, Argos, was taken by my friend in Summer 2016,
being groomed by Sally.



Walking along the River Thames in my neighbourhood


Surrey Quays in front of Canary Wharf

Gazing at the horizon and the river Thames
A break against the wind A break in the wild nature



Argos and friends
by François Bernard



Argos & Peacock at Holland Park
23 April 2017, my ninth birthday



Enjoying a Summer nap


On the terrace by the Pond of my house, September 2016

Walking back to my London home, as one of my 3 wisterias is in full early Spring bloom (2017)


July 2018 at Kenwood estate, Hampstead



A Coffee Break at the Olympic Park



by Hannah Evans, November 2019



Asking Breakfast


[At table July 2020]

[morning walk in North Greenwich park by the Thames river]
[Waiting my turn to swim at 'Pet Health & Therapy', July 2020]



Waiting an octapus dish


At my favourite restaurant to eat octapus, on an Atlantic beach of Portugal; Summer 2021