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Saturday, 4 December 2010
Happy Birthday Yazz, Zaz, Itzy and Zavla
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| I cannot believe that Yazz is 2 today ! Happy Birthday my beautiful girl and Happy Birthday to your beautiful sisters too! |
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Shanowl a ray of hope 19.01.1996 - 08.09.2010
Monday, 26 April 2010
Natural Instinct
This post is to say a very big thank you to Natural Instinct for agreeing to sponsor me and my dogs, I am so impressed with this raw food, it is extremely high quality and my dogs love it. I have been feeding my dogs raw food for many years, and this is definitely the best pre-made food that I have found on the market.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Wallingford woo hoo
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Oh dear !!
Oh dear, where do I start yet again my poor blog has been neglected!
Dan and Meg, Dan always manages blink in a picture!! Lovely Flowers :-)
It is nearly my beautiful daughters 18th birthday, where have the last 18 years gone? It only seems like yesterday that she was a babe in arms. It was my birthday a few days ago and I had the best birthday I can ever remember, I spent the day with Meg ( my daughter) who spoilt me bringing me the most gorgeous bunch of flowers and other pressies, then in the evening I had a Hannah, Polly, Lorna, Rosie, Jennie and Amanda round for Chinese yum yum !! Well I thought that my diet could hang for one day! Then the next day I went to Nancy’s for lunch which was made by Bern and very very yummy that was too and it was healthy doesn’t get much better than that, then onto a night of training for 3 hours with all my dogs it was great but boy was I tired the next day !The following day ( I thought that I would string this one out a bit lol ) I went to meet my son in London for Lunch with Meg and we had a wonderful day so thank you so much to my family and friends for making my birthday so great, and for all my lovely presents Xxx
Now onto my fantastic dogs, they are all just the best bunch of woofs around :-) I know that a few people will disagree with me lol Agility wise the season has started really well, but I felt very ring rusty, but as the shows have gone on I am feeling more confident, Todd is running really well at the moment and I am looking forward to the show season really getting underway, Jess is running well but we are not together at the moment, so I need to do lots of training with her to get our competition relationship back. Below is a picture of Todd winning my an Easter egg, thank you Toddster :-) The other picture with Yazz and her ring really makes me laugh.
Moving on to Yazoo,s first UKA show well what can I say she was just fantastic, happy, motivated her contacts are looking good and she even got a 2nd place in her first steeplechase competion, I am so very proud of her, she enjoyed it so much and wasn't fazed by anything else that was going on, made my day, thank you Yazz you rock!!! I know we have lots and to learn together and I can't wait we will have a ball.
You can see her first few runs on Berns blog I will try to upload her very first run later this week as I had problems with it earlier today. Below are some lovely pictures of our day at the UKA show, Yazz with her rosette and also her very clever sister with her 1st place, the group picture is very cute as all these pups started their pre agility class together and they all got a place at their first show.The show was lovely, the sun shone and the company was fantastic. I will just mention here that someone that should be nameless lol won 3 red rosettes at UKA on friday :-) well done Nancy and Zeki ! and also a huge cheer to Hannah and her lovely girls for their fantastic runs this weekend x
Lots going on at the moment I am trying to move after being here for nearly 21 years, so there is a vast amount of unused items that will be making a one way trip :-) and I have promised myself that my Magpie days are over for good! Not sure where I will be moving to yet, I just need to secure a buyer for my house first then the dilemma will start, a big decision to make but hopefully one that will be fun too.
Dan and Meg, Dan always manages blink in a picture!! Lovely Flowers :-)
It is nearly my beautiful daughters 18th birthday, where have the last 18 years gone? It only seems like yesterday that she was a babe in arms. It was my birthday a few days ago and I had the best birthday I can ever remember, I spent the day with Meg ( my daughter) who spoilt me bringing me the most gorgeous bunch of flowers and other pressies, then in the evening I had a Hannah, Polly, Lorna, Rosie, Jennie and Amanda round for Chinese yum yum !! Well I thought that my diet could hang for one day! Then the next day I went to Nancy’s for lunch which was made by Bern and very very yummy that was too and it was healthy doesn’t get much better than that, then onto a night of training for 3 hours with all my dogs it was great but boy was I tired the next day !The following day ( I thought that I would string this one out a bit lol ) I went to meet my son in London for Lunch with Meg and we had a wonderful day so thank you so much to my family and friends for making my birthday so great, and for all my lovely presents Xxx
Now onto my fantastic dogs, they are all just the best bunch of woofs around :-) I know that a few people will disagree with me lol Agility wise the season has started really well, but I felt very ring rusty, but as the shows have gone on I am feeling more confident, Todd is running really well at the moment and I am looking forward to the show season really getting underway, Jess is running well but we are not together at the moment, so I need to do lots of training with her to get our competition relationship back. Below is a picture of Todd winning my an Easter egg, thank you Toddster :-) The other picture with Yazz and her ring really makes me laugh.
You can see her first few runs on Berns blog I will try to upload her very first run later this week as I had problems with it earlier today. Below are some lovely pictures of our day at the UKA show, Yazz with her rosette and also her very clever sister with her 1st place, the group picture is very cute as all these pups started their pre agility class together and they all got a place at their first show.The show was lovely, the sun shone and the company was fantastic. I will just mention here that someone that should be nameless lol won 3 red rosettes at UKA on friday :-) well done Nancy and Zeki ! and also a huge cheer to Hannah and her lovely girls for their fantastic runs this weekend x
Saturday, 9 January 2010
Friday, 1 January 2010
Happy new year and Happy Birthday Jessica Rabbit !
Todays walk at the Witterings, I love new years days, the world seems new and perfect, and it is Jessies birthday so I went to her favourite place :-) Just a shame that the world and his wife had the same idea!! but by the time Hannah and I had had lunch and a couple of cups of tea most people started to leave !! here are a couple of pictures I LOVE the silhouette, and the sunset was truly beautiful
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Just a few hours to go
Well we are nearly there 2010! This year has just wizzed by, my blogger postings have been few and far between, agility wise I have had a really good enjoyable year, Todd and Jess are now grade 7, so I will be broke next year with champ entries lol the rest of my dogs are well and happy, Yazz is such a lovely dog, she is very funny, has a huge personality, she has many nicknames !!! She has had her 1st season, and is due to be speyed in February, so I have at least 8 weeks to get myself totally stressed out :-)
Her training was going well but the weather has put paid to anything over the christmas holidays which is really annoying as I have had 2 weeks off, and I was thinking about starting to teach her to weave, but that will have to wait now I think till after she is speyed, anyhow there is no rush.
I did Leahs festive simulated show before christmas to give Todd a practice for Olympia( ha ha ha !!!) and Leah very kindly let me run Yazz in a jumping course without any weaves in, I really did not think that she would be a ble to do that many obstacle together but I gave it a go and here was the result, I was very proud of her to say the least.
I have had some lovely walks this Christmas, even with the bad weather, walking in the snow with the dogs reminds me of being a child it is so enchanting, and I never bore of it, I know it causes kaos on the roads but it always seems so magical to me.
This is my most favourite picture of Todd in the snow.
Yesterday I went for a very wet walk to St Marthas, it is such a pretty place with a church on the top of the hill, hence the picture !!
Her training was going well but the weather has put paid to anything over the christmas holidays which is really annoying as I have had 2 weeks off, and I was thinking about starting to teach her to weave, but that will have to wait now I think till after she is speyed, anyhow there is no rush.
I did Leahs festive simulated show before christmas to give Todd a practice for Olympia( ha ha ha !!!) and Leah very kindly let me run Yazz in a jumping course without any weaves in, I really did not think that she would be a ble to do that many obstacle together but I gave it a go and here was the result, I was very proud of her to say the least.
I have had some lovely walks this Christmas, even with the bad weather, walking in the snow with the dogs reminds me of being a child it is so enchanting, and I never bore of it, I know it causes kaos on the roads but it always seems so magical to me.
This is my most favourite picture of Todd in the snow.
Yesterday I went for a very wet walk to St Marthas, it is such a pretty place with a church on the top of the hill, hence the picture !!
Here are a few of my favourite pictures of my dogs from this year, and I cant believe that this time last year Yazz was soooo little !!
I would like to wish all my friends and fellow bloggers a very happy new year !!! and also would like to wish Jessie a very happy 8th Birthday tomorrow :-))
They say one persons rubbish is another persons gold, and how true is that !
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Happy Birthday Todd
Happy Birthday to my gorgeous boy, on this posting I would have loved to have put a little video of Todd running at Olympia, but unfortunately, he went lame the day before, so I had to pull out. He seems a lot better today and that is what is important, as long as I have him there will always be another Olympia.
Enjoy the pictures we had lots of fun this morning taking some of them, my feet are only just getting the feeling back in them :-) and Granma notice the ears !!! not bad for a 1st effort me thinks lol
Enjoy the pictures we had lots of fun this morning taking some of them, my feet are only just getting the feeling back in them :-) and Granma notice the ears !!! not bad for a 1st effort me thinks lol
This is Todd in his birthday pressie a couple of weeks ago, and this week as the snow started falling.
I had to add this picture of Yazz as I managed to get her to stay still for more than 10 seconds she kept trying to attack the collar!!
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Happy 1st Birthday to Yazoo
4th December 2009 
I really cant believe that Yazz is a year today, this year has just wizzed by, I really need to do a huge catch up, but just never seem to get the time !! Yazoo has grown into such a beautiful young lady! she is such fun to have around, her and Todd are really good friends and it seems to me like she has always been here. Her agility training is going well, she is an absolute joy to train, she makes me laugh all the time, as do all of my dogs, I think that we are blessed to have these special friends to enjoy our life and our special sport with..........and for one I know that if I didnt have these wonderful friends I would have gone nutts long ago........... ok perhaps I have but just please dont tell anyone !!! I would like to wish all the other girl power pups a very very happy birthday too ! ! so here goes HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Zaz, Itzy and Zavy with much Love Yazoo xxxx and thank you Granma for a great party x
I really cant believe that Yazz is a year today, this year has just wizzed by, I really need to do a huge catch up, but just never seem to get the time !! Yazoo has grown into such a beautiful young lady! she is such fun to have around, her and Todd are really good friends and it seems to me like she has always been here. Her agility training is going well, she is an absolute joy to train, she makes me laugh all the time, as do all of my dogs, I think that we are blessed to have these special friends to enjoy our life and our special sport with..........and for one I know that if I didnt have these wonderful friends I would have gone nutts long ago........... ok perhaps I have but just please dont tell anyone !!! I would like to wish all the other girl power pups a very very happy birthday too ! ! so here goes HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Zaz, Itzy and Zavy with much Love Yazoo xxxx and thank you Granma for a great party xWednesday, 4 November 2009
Monday, 22 June 2009
catch up again !!!
Yazoo's six month birthday has come and gone and I cant believe how quickly the time has flown by, she is turning into a real little sweet heart, she is naughty but nice, just how I like my pups to be.
I have just finished a really lovely little pre agility foundation course with Kathrin Tasker, the emphasis was on teaching your pup to work with you, with tricks and general pre agility exercises, including balance and co ordination and getting you pup to work with you in a class with other pups too, I really enjoyed it and was extremely impressed with my little girl she is far more focused on me than I thought that she would be and she even managed to stay looking at me while her sister was working which I was very pleased about. She is good by the rings and shows little interest at the other dogs working, she at the moment has an on and off switch which is nice, I have found one thing though that she likes to chase and its magpies !! oh and she is pretty obsessed with rosettes too, so if you see her at prize giving hang on to them lol
The other thing that I joined in a few weeks ago was an agility boot camp run by Leah and Nancy, it was a three day boot camp but I couldn't’t do all of it due to a work commitment, but I went on the Saturday and joined in with their puppy foundation class which was brilliant, we did lots of different balance and shadowing work, and again, Yaz was completely focused on me not the other dogs, then I joined in the contact work shop with Todd, which I got a lot out of, I am pleased with Todd’s contacts, and he has fast stop 2 o 2 off contacts, but I am really bad at pushing the boundaries, and Nancy and Leah got me to push them and proof them, which I think has really helped in the last couple of weeks competition as Todd has been going really well. I will definitely do the whole of the boot camp next year if they do it !!
Paula took these pictures of Todd they are brilliant they depict him to a T!!
I have had a really good few shows and Todd has won 2 x agility classes and 1 x jumping class towards advanced, I am really proud of him, he gives his all in every run he does and its only me that lets him down sometimes. Jess not to be left out also got a 2nd place in a grade 6 7 jumping class this weekend at Axtane, which turned out to be a great weekend lots of friends doing really well. I got a sneak preview of Nancy’s Zeki doing some little bits and wow she is really lovely her A frame is brilliant.
Hannah did really well with Zazzy at Golden Valley and qualified for the Alpha Agility Challenge final so go Zazzy go !! it is so nice to see Zazzy so happy again, oh the trials and tribulations of being a girl, :-( !!!! also Jess and Becky (Banks :-)) came 3rd in the ped. pairs at Hinckly which we were pretty chuffed with just one outside of qualifying but the glass tumblers were handy lol lol lol
I spent the whole morning bathing all my dogs except 2 as they all went into a black muddy ditch and were black and stinky, Todd was not impressed with this new activity and I think I ended up with more water and mud on me in the end as he just kept shaking !!
I'm really looking forward to Lune and Barrow and am busy trying to get myself organised for the week, also am looking forward to having a celebration with my extremely clever son on Wednesday night as he has just got his results and has a 2 1 degree in English, so well done Dan, am proud of you ;-) beyond belief x
and lastly but no way least well done to Sue and Lorna with their scrummy poodles this weekend both getting 2 x 2nd places x
Yazoo's six month birthday has come and gone and I cant believe how quickly the time has flown by, she is turning into a real little sweet heart, she is naughty but nice, just how I like my pups to be.
I have just finished a really lovely little pre agility foundation course with Kathrin Tasker, the emphasis was on teaching your pup to work with you, with tricks and general pre agility exercises, including balance and co ordination and getting you pup to work with you in a class with other pups too, I really enjoyed it and was extremely impressed with my little girl she is far more focused on me than I thought that she would be and she even managed to stay looking at me while her sister was working which I was very pleased about. She is good by the rings and shows little interest at the other dogs working, she at the moment has an on and off switch which is nice, I have found one thing though that she likes to chase and its magpies !! oh and she is pretty obsessed with rosettes too, so if you see her at prize giving hang on to them lol
The other thing that I joined in a few weeks ago was an agility boot camp run by Leah and Nancy, it was a three day boot camp but I couldn't’t do all of it due to a work commitment, but I went on the Saturday and joined in with their puppy foundation class which was brilliant, we did lots of different balance and shadowing work, and again, Yaz was completely focused on me not the other dogs, then I joined in the contact work shop with Todd, which I got a lot out of, I am pleased with Todd’s contacts, and he has fast stop 2 o 2 off contacts, but I am really bad at pushing the boundaries, and Nancy and Leah got me to push them and proof them, which I think has really helped in the last couple of weeks competition as Todd has been going really well. I will definitely do the whole of the boot camp next year if they do it !!
Paula took these pictures of Todd they are brilliant they depict him to a T!!
I have had a really good few shows and Todd has won 2 x agility classes and 1 x jumping class towards advanced, I am really proud of him, he gives his all in every run he does and its only me that lets him down sometimes. Jess not to be left out also got a 2nd place in a grade 6 7 jumping class this weekend at Axtane, which turned out to be a great weekend lots of friends doing really well. I got a sneak preview of Nancy’s Zeki doing some little bits and wow she is really lovely her A frame is brilliant.
Hannah did really well with Zazzy at Golden Valley and qualified for the Alpha Agility Challenge final so go Zazzy go !! it is so nice to see Zazzy so happy again, oh the trials and tribulations of being a girl, :-( !!!! also Jess and Becky (Banks :-)) came 3rd in the ped. pairs at Hinckly which we were pretty chuffed with just one outside of qualifying but the glass tumblers were handy lol lol lol
I spent the whole morning bathing all my dogs except 2 as they all went into a black muddy ditch and were black and stinky, Todd was not impressed with this new activity and I think I ended up with more water and mud on me in the end as he just kept shaking !!
I'm really looking forward to Lune and Barrow and am busy trying to get myself organised for the week, also am looking forward to having a celebration with my extremely clever son on Wednesday night as he has just got his results and has a 2 1 degree in English, so well done Dan, am proud of you ;-) beyond belief x
and lastly but no way least well done to Sue and Lorna with their scrummy poodles this weekend both getting 2 x 2nd places x
Monday, 18 May 2009
I have joined the bad blogger club !!
I have lots to catch up on but here are a couple of short videos, the first is very funny !! and a few pictures, my shelties are becoming such good friends which is great and Yazzoo is turning into such a beautiful young lady :-) ( IMO anyway !!!)
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Well done Nancy and Niamh and Leah and Herbie
Well Done to Nancy and Naughty Niamh for winning graded 6 and to Leah and herbie for winning the graded 7 in the 6/7 today at WSBDS, what a couple of stars :-) xx
Friday, 24 April 2009
Perfect morning
What a glorious morning, I have just come back from a long leisurely walk through the bluebells here are some pictures of my walk ! and a couple of some of my favourite flowers in my garden at the moment.
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