and today's Sunday –

but tomorrow is cancelled because we are, shall I say, cream crackered? It's been a great day, but entertaining Graeme, Daniel and Alex is certainly exercising.

Elanor and Sally came over and joined us after lunch, though Sally was even more tired than we are now, after competing in her first agility event yesterday. As we all feared might be the case, she was the comic relief, eliminated four times out of four for stuff like refusing too many times, going over the A frame the wrong way, trying to have a dump in the middle of the arena… Not to mention spending a bit of time working the crowd by standing on her hind paws, resting her forepaws on the barrier and looking hopefully at their hot chocolate/burgers/crisps/whatever.

No matter, she didn't threaten anyone or disgrace herself in that way, just didn't concentrate on the task in hand. When she's in the mood, she can fairly fly over the jumps, but not yesterday. It's a matter of more experience, hopefully; though some of it may be the Doberman coming out. Sometimes a Dobi just can't resist the temptation to go for the laugh.

Anyway, it was great to see all the family again (except Cathy, who was doing Christmassy stuff with her Mum) even if we're left a bit wrung out now.

Tomorrow, we'll just chill for the day, probably, with maybe a visit to the Willow Tree to help the mood along.

Now I have to go back and subedit this lot; you can tell I'm tired, about every thrid word has a red dotted line under it…

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