Category: Kim

  • Northern Festival of Agility: Part Three

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    Waldridge Fell. The KC Novice Olympia Qualifier was a tricky little course, but being a Combined 3-5 I wasn’t expecting easy. I walked it and quite liked it – Julie Buchanan was judging and she always includes a wall and a brush fence, which I love. The only thing I wasn’t so keen on was…

  • Northern Festival of Agility: Part Two

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    [singlepic id=158 w=320 h=240 float=center] Beach. The beach at Redcar is gorgeous, all endless miles of sand and sea. Dylan and I spent a couple of hours there by ourselves earlier in the week, but the girls arrived on Thursday and Dylan was ridiculously excited to see them again so we spent all afternoon there.…

  • Puppy Kim

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    This is Kim at 7 weeks old, the day she came home. [singlepic id=152 w=320 h=240 float=center] She was tiny and squishy and had a fat little belly and a butterfly nose. It’s a photo of a photo because this was back in the day, when you had to take your film out of your…

  • Honley Woods

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    I shouldn’t have even bothered taking my camera; the lighting was awful! Overcast skies + twilight = not good for photos of moving dogs. Still, look at Mollie’s smiley face! [singlepic id=153 w=320 h=240 float=center] Dylan is getting really irritating on walks, I keep wanting to smack him round the head! He is generally pretty…

  • Late Post: Flyball

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    The gang did well at flyball this week. Kim did 6 runbacks, just over 12″, to ease her gently back into things. She’s back on non-lead walks, except for the first 15minutes where everyone goes absolutely loopy and they chase each other around at top speed. Kim has to be restrained to avoid that, and…

  • Hoards of Killer Bees

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    It seemed like a good idea at the time. However. Walking through waist high banks of heather in spring? BEES. Bees everywhere. I got all of four pictures in the heather, before the hoards of angry bees began circling my head and we fled. So we spent a lot of time at the river, avoiding…

  • Drax

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    My first Drax. Events have always conspired against us in previous years, and we’ve never made it. Well, we kind of made it via Rotherdrax, but I’m not sure that counts! I warned everyone Kim wasn’t at all fit for solid racing, but due to one of the bottom team dogs coming into season, we…

  • Birthday Boy

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    Dylan is a whole four years old today. We celebrated by going for a nice long walk, on which I failed to get any good photos of Dylan at all. Thankfully, there is this magical editing program, Photoshop. It’s amazing what can be salvaged! Most things can’t though. Imagine lots of blurred/overexposed/splashes of water where…

  • Snap Happy

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    Had so much fun with this. I was after Mollie’s 52 Weeks shot, and I’d seen someone else try this idea with their dogs. Some dogs got the idea quicker than others … [singlepic id=86 w=320 h=240 float=center] [singlepic id=92 w=320 h=240 float=center] … others were under the mistaken impression that I would just drop…

  • Rotherdrax (and Points)

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    I’ve never been to the Drax venue before, for various reasons, so it was nice to get a visit in before we stay there in May. It’s tiny! But very flyball-y, everything squashes in nicely and there is a clubhouse with a proper bar and proper drinks and proper food, all the important things. I…