{"id":1536,"date":"2010-09-23T18:59:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2010-09-23T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:59:27","slug":"quiet-weeks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My computer unexpectedly died late last week, and it doesn&#8217;t look like we can get it looked at until the end of the month. I&#8217;m hoping that we&#8217;ll at least be able to recover the hundreds of photos and videos I had on the hard drive of the dogs, but I&#8217;m feeling a little disheartened by the idea that it&#8217;s all lost. At the moment, it just means that my time on a computer is limited to maybe 20-30minutes a day at best. It&#8217;s a struggle!<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">[singlepic id=299 w=320 h=240 float=center]<\/div>\n<p>As a result, the dogs and I have been alternatively lounging around or going for impulsive walks to the local parks. We&#8217;re so bored we considered taking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/\">Geocaching<\/a>, although the fact we don&#8217;t have any kind of GPS device scuppered that plan.<\/p>\n<p>The weather too, is scuppering all plans. It&#8217;s gone very autumnal this week, which of course means endless downpours. It&#8217;s been raining for a week and already I&#8217;m looking forward, rather desperately, to next summer. Dylan and I are forced to practise our heelwork inside, which means it&#8217;s taken a bit of a backseat. We can only walk around 10ft before having to make a sharp left or right, and then it starts looking more like very small heelwork circles, which I don&#8217;t think is doing either of us any good. I&#8217;m having problems with it anyway, as I decided to start using the clicker, which turned out to be a complete disaster. It&#8217;s too specific &#8211; I can end up clicking him for for head position, hind position, left or right paw off the floor, moving, and if I get my timing wrong, general bouncing and enthusiasm. That&#8217;s too many things in one click, and I can&#8217;t simplify any more than I have. So we&#8217;re using verbal markers, and it seems to be working.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">[singlepic id=300 w=320 h=240 float=center]<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re flyballing at Redcar this weekend, in rather unexpectedly mixed teams, but there is always a beach to console us if it all goes wrong. This is probably my favourite venue in the country (although I wish it had better showers!) but I have a feeling this weekend is going to be very damp. Unless we all freeze to death, as the weatherman is happily anticipating &#8212;  but then, he&#8217;s been wrong all summer, so I&#8217;m not inclined to start believing him now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My computer unexpectedly died late last week, and it doesn&#8217;t look like we can get it looked at until the end of the month. 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