darkening nights

This week started off wondrously when Tm stuck his toenail in my eye! Not his fault really - he was pestering Maisie to play with him and she kept saying "No, Tim, go away", and Tim being Tim kept prodding her more till she said "SOD OFF TIM!!!" and Billy joined in: "YEAH, SOD OFF TIM!!" So he sodded off ... over my shoulder ... via my eyelid. Result was some handsome bleeding, swelling and afterwards a black scabby eye. Dogs!!!! Course it was my good eye and the other one is so duff I was a little stuffed till the swelling went down as I couldn't actually see much - like: the road (so no driving), computer screen, phone display, telly, mirror!!! - so at least I couldn't really see how awful it looked, haha! 
Anyway, wounds heal. 
Whilst pottering round in a partially sighted state I came across an old puppy bed of Maisie's so gave it a wash (just to keep it fresh, there is no patter of tiny paws!!) Left it out on the landing to air and it started all sorts of fun!... Both Billy & Tim have come over all Goldilocks and have to keep trying it for size & comfort. Honestly, it's only about 18" across, they are Too Big!! But they're both constantly in and out of it - & when one of them's in, the other lays beside it looking mournful and waiting for his turn! Maisie thinks they are nuts and reclines in luxury in the big bed in the other room.

Billy's good squidging technique

Tim tries the reversing in method ...

Ummm nearly ...

Duh, look, just can't quite get that last ear in!



Boys are buffoons

 Training
No shows for 3 weeks (arrrrg!) but we had a training day on Saturday. I am soooooooooo chuffed with how Tim has started working the past few weeks. No bogging off, fab focus. We've kept everything pretty simple for him all along, to build his confidence, and now it's really starting to pay off and it feels like we've turned a definate corner. When I get the handling right he can do lots of the harder stuff already and he's so keen & speedy. Sort of by accident we ended up playing with the higher grades group and I wouldn't have thought he would cope but he did really, really well. Oooo exciting boy!!!!! Just need to keep working on transferring that focus to shows now ... Still not decided whether to do the indoor shows with him; much more looking forward to the spring anyway though. Maisie bounced off the subs bench & did the last bit of the training session and ran at medium and she was a very happy girly too and quite giddy!

This morning loads of crazy people ran up our road. The dogs wuffed for a while but soon got bored. It was the Bradford City Run. Well done crazy people.

Weather has really turned this week and it's quite chilly at night. Not lit a fire yet but it's stacked up ready to go. Brrrrrrrrrr.