Looking forward to the year ahead

Photo by Jackie Goulder

I'm just back from a lovely couple of days spent 'up north' visiting with Jackie & Bob (sorry other Yorkshirers, I ended up on a somewhat tight schedule), sheepdog trainers. What a nice way to escape from the city by spending time surrounded by stunning farmland. Tooheys was in heaven getting to romp in the fields, and I wasnt far from it getting to talk herding and watch the dogs in training. Makes me really want to get back into it which hopefully I will be able to with the arrival of a certain new addition.

Meanwhile, back down south it looks like Tooheys & I are off to Crufts to run in the International agility. What a laugh. The person who normally runs for Australia isnt able to, and funnily enough theres not many in Aus queing up to put their dogs through the long flights & quarantine, so its fallen back to us this year. Nothing like being invited by default. I just hope we dont embarass ourselves too badly, since we will be up against some of the best in europe.

For anyone wanting a good laugh, I have it authority that it will be shown on cruftsTV .

We will be running on the saturday, Jumping at 9 am (8pm sat nigh Australian time) and Agility at 3.30pm (2.30 am sun morning Australian time).

Here's to many more weekend escapes

So I've been a very poor blogger lately. But between working extra shifts and the winter weather theres not been much exciting happening. Tooheys has been really enjoying his agility classes when we get to training, but I'm sure he's starting to feel the boredom of being cooped up more than normal. Hopefully that will all change soon.

In the meantime I had my first trip for the year this past weekend. And what a lovely weekend it was.

Saturday I flew into Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and spent the afternoon wandering the streets of the quaint city.

Sunday was spent with a day trip up to the absolutely stunning Lake Bled. Nothing more beautiful than a relaxing long walk around the lake with all the sunday locals, and then recovering with coffee at a cafe on the waters front.

Monday morning I had a 'bus' booked to Venice, which turned out to be a mini van..me squashed in with a bunch of old italian men..hmm. On arriving, the rest of the day was spent wandering the streets & canals of venice.

And come tuesday, time to fly back to reality.