Back to life

So now the puppies are gone, life has returned to normal... Work and ponies and a bit of Olympics 'til the we small hours to add to the washed out morning feeling.

We are doing a great line in puppy sitting, not really a hardship as we get to play with our babies once again - oh how they have grown, propper little dogs now.

The ponies are all settled into their new home and starting to go really well, the puppy hliday is now over! Hugo even had to spend a week at Wellington working with Boo. Bea and I have our first event next weekend, so we are cramming in work whenever possable but she just gets better and better. William Mifkin training tonight, off tot he gallops tomorrow, jumping and cross country on Sunday.... Bring it on!

Pulling into Paddington on the 06.55 so I now need to go

Puppy Blog

The Puppies now have their very own blog:

http://ardevorapuppies.blogspot.com/


So if you haven't been woken up at 3,4 or 5 in the morning for the last 8 weeks, or if you just need to see the sweetest Chocolate Labrador puppies, check out their blog.

Bye Bye to the Puppies

So a sad goodbye to all the puppies this weekend, here they are heading off to the vet for their first vaccination, we got all of 5 yards backwards across the drive when we ran out of petrol!!!

Luckily we hadn't gone any further and we were able to offload them all into Paul's car.

Look who we bumped into

You try to go for a quiet walk in Bramshill forest, and there is Bianca and Max mooching about claiming that there are not lost but just unsure which direction home is? Great to catch up and finally meet Max.

Another move for the horses

As of Thursday last week, all the horses have been moved from the urban environment of Wokingham to the sleepy countryside of Stratfield Saye. The biggest upshot of this is that they are now only 5 minutes from our front door.

They have settled in very well, perhaps too well. Bea's paddock is surrounded on two sides with mares and foals, now no getting broody, she has work to do!

Six Weeks Old & Exploring the Garden

On one of the only sunny days in July we managed to get the puppies out in the garden for almost an hour before the rain started again!

Show jumping with WBRC

A very early start on Saturday morning allowed Diane to plait up Hugo ready for a 9.30 first round at the Southern Area Team Qualifiers just north of High Wycombe. Uncharacteristically Hugo collected a time fault in his first round but was clear in the second. The two WBRC teams went on to clear up first and second places and qualified for the Team Championships later in the year.









Both Boo and I were then in the London and South East Qualifiers in the afternoon. Boo's team fantastically picked up first place without needing Hugo's jump-off skills, the only dissapointment of the day, if you can call it that! For Bea's first outing we only collected a silly fault in each round and the team made it into 5th place, also qualifying for the area championships in the Autumn. So a great day out with three rossettes for our troubles.

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