At the dog show we mess up the seesaw on run one but that
was better than runs two and three which were pretty much a total disaster. The
problem is run three was the all important team run in the Crufts qualifier. Not only did MD have faults, he
self-started before the baton change had been done and got the team 20
changeover faults too. With only one of our three dogs clear and 55 faults,
which is practically a cricket score, that’s surely that for the day.
I think it may have been too hot for him or it was because now after a
few showers it’s blowing a gale.
Having said we’re having a bad day, everyone else is having
a worse one. Our team, despite it’s cricket score, is currently in second place
albeit with a long way to go though. Even the leaders picked up 20 changeover
faults. It was a pretty tough course.
Bizarrely, after all 43 teams have run, only two managed to
not get at least one dog eliminated (which scores 100 faults) and we were one
of them, so we came second. What is even funnier is that it turns out that the
first placed team had already qualified for Crufts at a previous heat. Which
means the qualifying place goes to the second placed team... which was us. So…
OMG. We have qualified for Crufts.
Time to celebrate...
After having offered to show my tennis opponent how the pubs
of Canning Circus have changed since the 1990s we are not surprised when it
doesn’t happen. We go anyway and spend the evening in first the Hand and Heart,
then the Blue Monkey.
(Saturday 27th May)
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