....cor blimey!!

Well all that training really paid off...we had a fabulous long weekend away with Hare N Hounds at Duncombe Park, lots of sunshine, great friends, lots of giggles in a magnificent, awesome setting and.... Jette finally got her agility win taking us into Grade 2!! I'm so pleased for her, she's missed it so many times but convincingly she also came home with a Jumping 2nd, an Agility 3rd and 2 Jumping 4ths, all on tricky courses with plenty of competition, so she's storming into Grade 2 with cheeky girlie attitude lol!

It was a great show all round, I think everyone did really well, the pairs class with Wendy set us up for the Saturday as I got out first cross-behind in the weaves and that gave us the confidence to really go for it, strange as on the Friday I'd not wanted to run really after work had fill my head with 'stuff'. Just goes to show what a giggle can do :)

Helen and I also got a little mini-tour of the big-house from a guide who really knew her stuff and loved being asked questions, a shame the son-in-residence- will be stopping these tours of the house, what a shame, the guides are gutted! We also had fish 'n chips in celebration of Jettes win, all the locals had something to stare at as we sat in the square with all the dogs ha ha!! Although I got to look after Lou's Baddlie-child-eating-dog as we queued, never again ha ha!!

Flynn wasn't keen on the midnight beastie stalking our camping pitch.... poor big boy lol!!

Anyway here it is, with Jette in the water, where she loves it best....

...back in training!

..well it's been a while since the last post and we've been busy, very busy, training and training. Both Flynn and Jette are doing well with White Rose and with Lucy (Auntie) Osborne and Jette is training outdoors with Kate at Pingy.

I'm pleased with Flynn who's using his back end down the contacts, all that foundation work is really paying off and, although his jumping is a little erratic, he is starting to get the hang of it and can do a simple circle of obstacles accurately and with drive. It's a long way to go but a lot of positives to build on so I'm really pleased.

Jette loves her training and is really going great guns, asking her to do a lot of work way out of her comfort zone and she tackles it now without taking her bat and ball home if she doesn't understand. Lucy asking for independent contacts is a pipe dream worth working towards :)

While she's acing her runs at training, it's not transferring to show runs yet, we went to Hare N Hounds and she had some lovely runs, last pole down with hesitation in the jumping cost us the class and a missed Aframe contact cost us the Agility, but you can see it's there and coming together. Coming away with a 3rd, a 5th and a clear in the ABC 1-7 jumping, I can tell it's just waiting to happen and I hope so for her, she's a great character and deserves to have a win.

Others are doing ace too, Claire and Bella got a lovely win, Kirsty and Maisie with Tim have moved up to Grade 3 so it's all systems go, Belle is doing well for Helen too. Here's to Hare N Hounds next weekend, really looking forward to it and hope we get there, car has passed it's MOT so it's fingers firmly crossed :)

On the domestic front the bathroom is still ongoing and Willow had her 11th birthday, happy birthday Willow gorgeous babe!

Who let the bath out????

Oooh that looks a bit nice :)

Everyone in the gang say Many Happy Returns Willow xxxx