Still A Word?

The first day of three days competing at our own dog agility show and MD does incredibly well recording 6^th and 9^th in his two jumping classes together with a 10^th in an agility one. It would have been a fourth clear round out of four runs had his handler been up to the task.

His handler, who may or may not have been struggling with a slight hangover, got him eliminated in his final run.

In the evening we visit the local pub in Walton on Trent. The White Swan appears to have had a complete overhaul and is no longer a Marston’s identikit foodie joint. The Pedigree is still on the bar but so are a couple of local beers too and the food menu has changed immeasurably. The menu now consists of some interesting oblong (is that still a word?) pizzas, the dreaded ‘posh’ burgers (of course) and some ‘stick’ dishes. These are massive vertical skewers that come in various flavours. This is what we order and they're not bad but we certainly didn’t need the soup starter. At least the dogs got supper.

(Friday 29^th July)

Just Not Our Day

I drop L in Leamington from where she is heads off to their parkrun (where else) and then to meet Son for breakfast. I then carry on to the Southam dog show.

There are no clear rounds today as we have a few poles down and miss a few contact points but it was not too bad a performance overall. I think it was just not our day today. Although I wasn’t too happy with his contacts so I take him in the practice ring where they suddenly become brilliant again before reverting to ‘not great’ in our next run.

In the parkrun L is defeated by a beagle but it was probably on drugs. Breakfast went well apparently and she gets a bus over to join us at the show.

We stay in tonight ahead of tomorrow’s 10k.

(Saturday 12^th September)

The Pressure Is On

The dogs and I are at Rugby Agility Show on Catton Park, which is nowhere near Rugby.

In the morning MD has one clear, one weave failure (my fault) and one refusal (his fault). Leaving us just the Crufts Team Qualifier to do in the afternoon. I have promoted him to Team 1 so the pressure is on but we deliver with a clear round. Sadly, the team as a whole had faults so won’t be at Crufts any time soon but everyone had fun I think.

L breaks the hour in her race, the Womens 10k on Nottingham's Embankment. In fact she makes it on to the dizzy heights of page 4 of 10 on the results sheet. Awesome. She’s in the big time.

The winners time is a generous 45.04, which makes me think I could have beaten the lot of them had I had to hand a wig and a sports bra.

In the evening we visit the Barrel Drop and the Peacock before having another curry. A take away one this time.

(Sunday 12^th July)