Back to work...and shows!

Look how beautiful these two are!! 💚💙 we had a lovely few days off work together and for a change the weather was nice so we enjoyed some long walks in the spring sunshine!

Bru also got his rosette for comping 3rd in an online hoopers competition! His hoopers and distance work has really helped his agility 💛

Unfortunately poor Brooke has had a sad tale to tell...or should that be tail? Its a long story but she we noticed she must have been chewing on her tail when we weren't watching her and she had made it red raw. The vets gave us antibiotics but inevitably we knew that she was going to need a partial tail amputation as the tip had gone black 😢 The scary thing is that the vet thought it had been caused by some hair wrapped round the tail bone cutting off the circulation! The operation went well and she has been a model patient as usual!

Windswept walkies!! 

Some of our tomato seedlings have been moved to bigger pots, four varieties this year!! 

Less windy sunny walk! 

Brookes tail bandaged up

I started work on the 29th March and it was so nice to be back, the bonus was that the weather has been beautiful! 

This weekend Bru actually competed at a couple of shows!! Even the roadtrip was fun!! 

These two did me proud at their first Grade 3 show by winning a jumping and an agility! It was a 1-3 show so the older dogs couldn't compete but it was so well organised and it was nice that I could watch from a distance. 

The bonus of Covid shows is that as the turnaround is really quick we were home by midday for a cuppa in the garden!!

And to top off his KC show results Bru went and qualified for the UKA Dogeria Challenge at UKA so is off to the Grand Finals in October!!! I didn't get to go and watch but saw the course plans online in the morning and thought they looked lovely.

Bru also got his Hoopers Stars Level 1 award which is an online set of exercises that you film and submit in your own time. Brooke had one more to do when her tail issue cropped up! The rosette is gorgeous!! 

I have been continuing to do jump work in the garden with them and got some cool stills from videos

And having a training session with Spark, good to test the skills in bigger spaces!! 

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!!

Light at the end of the (agility) tunnel!

The big news is that Boris has revealed his 'roadmap' of how we are getting out of lockdown, basically it looks like I can get back working from the end of March when the travel restrictions are lifted, yay!! This was posted on Facebook and sums it up nicely 

And then there was the agility version which is much more fun! 😂

So much sunshine this week that the dogs have been walking without coats on sometimes! 

The cutest couple!! 

And we even did some hoopers in the garden! Little Brodie have a little run round but also doing some impulse control with Bru!

We started sorting through our seeds at the weekend and planning what to grow

My little coffee shop buddy!

A little trip into town for a walk and a cuppa with the shelties!

And I saw my first daffys out!! As I get older I get ridiculously excited about spring!!

Our gorgeous garden helpers

The cutest little Toadlet! 

I also made scotch pancakes on pancake day and made the dogs their own little ones!

We have had so many beautiful sunrises recently! 

I was very spoilt on Valentines Day and got these gorgeous roses! Also my Amaryllis has flowered!

Spark and I went exploring on a local walk and ended up seeing camels!! The footpath backs onto Whipsnade zoo!

Mr Toad is more interested in squirrel hunting! 

First cuppa in the garden this year! 

And signs of spring coming through in my pots!

And some conditioning work in the garden too (excuse her funny face, she doesn't like the geese next door flapping!!) 

And after a walk and some hoopers in the garden this little man was so tired!! 

And a tired little collie!