Spring has Sprung!

 Here is a little sneaky peak at one of the wonderful photos that Bridget Davey took of the shelties last year! It is stunning ❤ Choosing them was really tricky!

Brooke with a little crocus!

The flowers are coming out nicely in the pots 

And the Daffodils are starting to make an appearance!

And for a change it has been dry over the fields! 

Toad has had a few little issues with being a bit 'leaky' when he sleeps sometimes. He now is the not very impressed owner of some cute pants! 😂

And now he has stopped having mini flare ups he has gone and seen the physio for a sore back, this was him after treatment waiting for Brooke in the van

He has been moving well on his walks since!

Spark and I have gone on a couple of longer walks recently, here are a collection of photos! 

Ordering take away coffee!!

Snow, grooming, food and jumps!

 I finally managed to get some photos of snowflakes on the dogs hair! I have been trying for a while and yesterday it snowed all day so I managed to get these

I also got some fun snow photos on our walk across the field!

Cheeky tongue! 💛

Beautiful Bean! 💚

Mr Toad! Can't believe he is 14 tomorrow! 💙

Miss Sparkle 💜

The last week has involved lots of yummy food...some baking, a visit to the bank, our weekly visit to Harpenden and also the most lovely surprise!! Rupert was my little helper on my trip to the bank, we also got a coffee from one of my favourite places and Bru wanted to say hi to the dogs waiting! 

Brodie toad got to do the Harpenden walk as he is feeling a wee bit better this week thank goodness

We did roast beef in the slow cooker and it was lovely and such a feast! 

I also baked some ginger cookies and they were probably my most professional looking batch yet!

They are also very popular with the dogs!! 😂

My lovely surprise was a box of the most beautiful cupcakes left on the bonnet of the van by one of my lovely clients! She is a brilliant cook and I would highly recommend Julies Cake Company in St Albans, not only do they taste delicious they look too pretty to eat! 

Yesterday I decided to give all the dogs a brush and do their nails, they were needing it!

I've actually been out in the garden over the last week before it snowed again! I managed to weed the patio and one flower bed and chop some dead stuff back.

The Peony is coming back to life!

The patio before weeding, it needed doing!

The flower bed all tidy finally!

The garden was also dry enough use the grass! So I finally got round to filming my retrieve video for J9 and also doing some jump work with the younger two dogs!

They were very tired afterwards! 

Bru has taken to sleeping here which is cute!

Sparkle is the Birthday Girl!

 Sadly last week the Coronavirus death toll for the UK reached 100,000 people and the average daily death rate is 1,200 people roughly. Unfortunately this is the lag from December where people were mixing and preparing for Christmas combined with the new more transmissible variants that have mutated. On the brighter side the vaccination programme is going well and the majority of the over 75's have had their first dose of the vaccine.

I can't believe that Sparkle is now 8 years old, that seems to have passed in a flash! We sadly didn't do anything very exciting to celebrate other than she had a nice chew after her dinner and we actually did a dry walk in the morning! In fact the sun was out and it made the dogs squint in the photos! The day started with a beautiful sunrise

And the little montage I put on facebook, I have finally manage to recreate the beautiful puppy picture I have of her with and she hasn't changed much 💜 Still enormous ears! 

She definitely enjoyed her birthday walk!

And it was nice to have clean dogs for a change!

Also Sparkle is currently the cover star for Agilitynet! 

After the pretty snow last week, this week has consisted mainly for floods and mud everywhere. I honestly don't think that even if we hadn't been in lockdown that I would be able to do much work at the moment! Brodie has managed a couple of potters to the fields over the last week which he really enjoyed and we are working on getting him back to bigger walks slowly as well. Bru was the king of the castle on this bit of left over snowman! 

The mud everywhere has been disgusting, I really want to give the dogs a good run where its not slippery but its so hard! We resort to pavement walking them a lot as it saves so much cleaning. Bru is also less then impressed by mud 😂

Brooke found the (slightly smaller) ex snowman on one of our potters to the field! 

And this van was a bit optimistic about getting through our normal village flood! This is the road in a previous post I mentioned that needed a fire boat as it was too deep for the fire engine! 

I made some flapjacks during the week as well and for whatever reason I cannot get them to set properly! Not sure if its that I used marg instead of butter but I cut them while warm and left them to cool in the tin but they still came apart. They tasted good though! I am going to try a different recipe this week and have another go!

And I had a very exciting package from my Mum...chocolate brownies and a puzzle! They were so yummy! 

I have got round to sorting our dogs portraits out and they just look so lovely all together! My good friend Nicola got a couple for me, the last being Bramble for Christmas so the set is complete now ❤ I decided that they should each have a ribbon in 'their colour' (all our dogs are given a colour so that we know whose stuff belongs to who) and they have worked so well. I haven't decided where to hang them yet!

Its a good thing our boys get on so well, Bru fell asleep on Toads head! 

Toad wrapped up in his blanket!