Guilty Party!

Well it's a good day that there's only today and tomorrow left in school for the girls!  Eleanor brought her shoes in after leaving them by the trampoline whilst she was playing with her friends.  There wasn't much left of one of them!  Trainers will have to do!

Not sure whether either of them look guilty!

The evidence

Really looking forward to seeing some dry weather, even the dogs have started to give me dirty looks when it's time to go out.  Once out they enjoy the mud and puddles, but we could really do with some dry weather now.

Surf's Up!

Today, we have had sunshine!!  A whole day with no rain, we didn't know what to do with ourselves, or what job to do first.

The washing has been caught up with, and there was plenty of it after last weekend at Tuffley!  The grass has been cut, ready for it's next growth spurt, and so we headed to the beach.

The dogs love the water, and  especially love the sea, even when it is quite rough which it was today.  The children took the body boards and had great fun in the surf.  Maddie particulary enjoyed diving in with them.

Tuffley Championship Agility Show

Well we decided to attend Tuffley dispite the van being in the garage, so no vehicle to tow the caravan.  So we went back to basics and attended with the tent, the weather and ground was awful but we had so much fun!

We arrived to find that most vehicle were being towed on to the site, we managed to get across to  the far side of the ground having a perfect view of the both the castle and the top rings.  Also managed to camp on slightly better ground than the bottom of the field.  After a rather wet night, yes it did leak slightly and I had a new air bed that I couldn't inflate we managed to have a relatively dry day on the Saturday.  Maddie managed to get a clear round and ended up being 14th, which out of 137 dogs was fab.  Tasha and Eleanor took part in the junior classes and Tasha managed a clear round, Eleanor has only just started working Maddie in agility did realy well but was eliminated. 

Again  another slightly soggy night in the tent, and I did get up to see if the river behind us was about to flood us, which thank goodness it didn't!  Again Maddie ran well for me this time gaining a 8th place out of 119 starts, I was so pleased with her.  Tasha handled her in the juniors this time and managed a 3rd, so completly outdoing me!!

Tilly managed to humiliate Eleanor in the junior by leaving the ring, but did manage to get around a full height course earlier in the day.

All in all a fab weekend, just hope that the weather improves for Tuffley next year (and for the rest of the summer!)





Camp Seahaven!!

The girls with Berkeley Castle in the the background.



Another Busy Week

Well it's been another busy week here, not with the dogs but with other committements.  The dogs haven't missed out though!

Luckily we have managed to have some good walks in the dry, not that the dogs mind in the  least and they usually get wet from swimming anyway!  Agility was on for a change, we have missed loads of sessions due to the girls having seasons and the weather.  Well this week it was dry and we still didn't go! 

The children sang in a concert with their choir last weekend, which was fantastic.  A trip to Caldey Island was cancelled due to the sea conditions which was a shame.  This week was Tasha's comfirmation so we were busy with practices for that then the ceremony on Friday evening.  It was a very special event, the Bishop even came and sat with us for supper after the service.

We are now hoping for some good weather for next weekend, when we will be at Tuffley for the agility.

Back out and about

Well we haven't posted for a little while as Maddie and Trio have both been in season and as a result have been limited in what to do.

It has however been really busy with other things, we have enjoyed the county junior athletics, and the school music evening with our daughters.  Christopher sat his maths GSCE stats paper this week (only 12 yrs so really proud of him for this), so it's been a busy few weeks of revision.  Roll on August for his results.

Today we took the dogs for a walk along the Cleddau, it seems to have been ages since I had all 3 dogs out for a long walk together.  They all had a good swim which they thoroughly enjoyed.  Hoping to meet up with Jess and Rookie (Batty as he was known here) so looking forward to seeing how he is developing.

Can I go in mum, pretty please...

Yeah!!

Hoping for some extra good news in the coming weeks, keep checking the blog!

Another missed show!

Well the worst of the weather was north of us, so we got off very lightly in comparison to Ceredigion.

With Maddie and Trio both in season we decided not to attend the Large Munsterlander Championship Show today.  Hate missing shows when we have entered, and have waited at home for news on the net and from friends.

Lucy took Milly to Ashfield open show in the Midlands and again took the best puppy in breed.  They are having a really good time, and enjoying every minute of it!  Well done to you both, it certainly made us feel better for missing the LMC show.

What has happened to the sun!!

Can't you tell when the children are off school!  Sadly we missed Monmouth last weekend, with two munsters in season we decided to stay home and make the most of the weather on the Saturday. We sadly missed meeting up with some of the others Seahaven offspring which as we normally manage a meet whenever we're staying at Monmouth.

Maddie and Trio are really fed up with being left behind, and Tilly has really enjoyed her outings with us.  On Saturday I took the children and Tilly to the beach for a few hours, I really don't know who had the most fun!  I quite happily observed as Tilly swan alongside the body boards, and dug huge holes in the sand with 3 happy children.



Let me do it, I'm better at doing holes than you lot!




Race you all to the sea!