Saturday 8 August 2020

Thirty degrees plus!

It has been so hot over the last couple of days! I taught workshops at a friends field on Friday and it was 33 degrees in the afternoon so I'm thrilled that everyone was happy to start early. I have honestly never started teaching workshops at 7am before! The dogs and people were fantastic and game to have a go at trying new things. Today has been over 30 degrees as well so we are all tired and wilting in the heat! We are off to our first covid safe show tomorrow (will do a separate blog post) and it sounds so different and a little weird but I'm sure that the dogs will enjoy being at a party again! 

This week the number of coronavirus infections has risen again and a few places have imposed local closures and restrictions including Aberdeen and Preston. Some people definitely need a kick up the bum to remember that we are in the midst of a global pandemic! 

We went for a long early morning walk to beat the heat and did some blackberry picking


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Anyway onto my usual random selection of photos 😂 Did my second courgette cake during the week, it is such a good cake for hot weather as its quite refreshing (if a cake can be refreshing!) and moist sue to the courgette. It would probably be much healthier without the buttercream!!
These two had a coffee with me at the garden centre during the week, they are so photogenic!
My mostly purple petunias have now seemed to be mostly white! Some of them are all white!! They are still very pretty but I don't remember them doing this last year. The ones at the front are such a deep purple colour this photo doesn't do them justice.
We found a sunflower growing that we didn't plant and its turned out the biggest of the lot! The fence is 6ft and its not flowering yet so I think it will be bigger!
It has been so hot at night that the dogs have slept downstairs rather than in our room in crates. Bru is such a sensible boy and loves the cool mat
We went round to Matts Mums today and had a nice time pottering round the garden and having some fish and chips! 
This would have been a lovely photo if it wasn't for Brooke bean photobombing 💩😂
When we got home Spark was so tired that she went to bed and wouldn't move!
The shelties came out in the garden while we played molkky and Brooke had to stand in the box!
And Rupert found a tennis ball!
Matt sent me this during the week, Spark taking up two beds...she is so bad in the heat!
 We have done a bit of training in the garden this week on tunnel/weave work here are some of the doglets doing various exercises

Spark

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Brooke

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Bru - this was hard for him as he loves tunnels so we taught him to nose touch and then added the weave entry before progressing to the full set of weaves

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