Cartmel

We arrived late on Friday eve into Cartmel village which is small and pretty, lots of cottage garden flowers, and the priory bells were ringing. Wyre members met us in the square and pointed us to our camping, the racecourse venue is literally in the village. Our plot was idyllic, right on the bank of the stream! Even more perfect, the stream ran down to the ring area and so Maisie was able to sploosh her way to her runs :)

Saturday was hot and sunny. Maisie and I were e’d both runs – the second one because, just in time, Maisie spotted a dangerous monster lurking in the tunnel and anchored on, narrowly avoided being eaten by it (that’s what she told me so it must be true!) On Sunday, a cooler, wetter day and our last in grade 1 (boohoo) we fared better with a 2nd (another trophy, what is going on?!) in g1 agility, and 9th in 1-2 agility :) Then she did more splooshing and playing.

Tim had a couple of runs each day and a go in the practice ring. He seems to be getting over his stagefright and did some nice stuff, in one only ducking under 1 jump!! He was more confident and happeee, good lad. We met a lady with Welsh sheepdogs. Tim had a mad play with her 10 m.o. boy – interesting how in tune their body language was. He was short-coated and so you could clearly see the difference in structure from BCs. They all seem to have the funny skunky tail! She said how late they are to mature and I agree! It was Tim’s ‘official’ 2nd birthday on Sunday, but he’s still a baby pupster. He had nice playtimes with other dogs too and a walk with fave girlfriend Belle and her bally.

Even Billy Woof got to participate as there was a fun scurry. He had a few goes and it was ace! He also came to the pub on Saturday night to watch England – the pub had a world cup marquee in their pretty beer garden – real ale, Pimm’s, great atmosphere, bliss! Billy bummed crisps and was fussed and happy in his role as guide dog for the drunk :)

The primary school had a yummy cake stall at the show, and there was a charity plant sale, tombola, a cricket match, and wonderful hot showers. We never did find out why there are multi-coloured sheep lurking all over Cartmel village but they are very nice anyway!……