We haven't got to many local shows this year so we decide to get over to Borrowdale Shepherd's Meet today for an hour or two. It's held at Yew Tree Farm in Rosthwaite - the area where it all started for me - all our family holidays were here. When I say it all started here, I mean the love of Cumbria, not farming. That was a bit closer to home!
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| Judging the Aged Herdwick Tups |
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| We came across quite a few real nice working bred Springers today. One pair in particular were very similar to Breeze |
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| Breeze on the left (as you look at it) and Fern on the right. Breeze and Fern had an identical trick of squirming round to sit on your feet leaning on your legs. You'd think they were sisters |
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| Breeze spent an awful lot of the time getting attention fro passers by - having such a pretty spaniel is a great way of meeting people. When she wasn't getting a tickle, she was taking it all in. She's got quite used to shows now. |
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| Chewing the Cud |
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| Not a bad setting is it? |
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| The reward for being a good girl - a dip in Derwent water on the way home - where we met another spaniel admirer - Lee a fireman from the North East who splits his time between there and a caravan at Threlkeld. He is just about to get a Springer pup (it's just been born) and he had lots of questions! Hopefully he will call in with the pup when he gets it in a couple of months time. We'll have to wait and see! |
