Well, England was wonderful and Lesley Gosling treated me like a queen. We traveled somewhere almost every day, and I was privileged to meet and hug and walk her Border Terriers and Grace, her Scottish deerhound. I met a large number of other Border Terriers, some of the ones I only get to see in the Border Terrier Annual that Alan Hedges puts out every year. That was FANTASTIC! Lesley judged 226 Border Terriers in ONE day! There were some beautiful BTs there too, let me tell you that!
I made a connection to get sperm sent over "the pond" from a very nice boy. That will be for Kat's next heat, and that is thanks to Lesley. This may be the start of something very nice, this capability to have puppies fathered by UK males! I'm excited.
The people I met in England were unbelievably nice. I now see why people who are in the know tell me that they would live in England in a heartbeat! I should have taken more pictures than I did, but the flowers were gorgeous, the weather couldn't have been better and the ewes had delivered their lambs so I was in heaven, listening to them baa and spying them and their antics!
We went to Falkirk to see the Falkirk wheel and it is fantastic! It is utilitarian and also a work of art. I will include pictures of it when I get the pictures up.
If anyone is going to go over to the north part of England make sure that you check out a web site called What's Special About. It has on it CDs that one puts into their car or onto an iPod and it narrates the drive with all kinds of historical references, etc. It is really great! I ordered mine before I went over and I'm glad that I did. I got to listen to them without being on the drive and then again on the drive, so I knew what to expect. Only way to go.
Pip and Ono are growing up and are wonderful. Pip is a pistol as well as a lover. Ono is going to be an obedience dog, he heels so perfectly. Primarily, he will be a show dog, but maybe the breeder will learn how to train an obedience dog!
I may have lost my England pictures.... Keep your fingers crossed that they turn up. I just may not know how to put them on the computer using a foreign photo card. I don't know!
