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Lilly decided to have her babies 5 days early, and as you can appreciate that meant I wasn’t totally ready. She had 6 healthy babies, somewhat less than the 9 we expected. The birth was relatively straight forward, she handled it all marvellously, with me acting in a support role. What has been really interesting…

It has been a little quiet on here of late – I realise that. A few technical issues combined with a lot going on has meant you have been neglected a bit. So here is a catch up of what is going on at Fresh Start HQ. As some of you will be aware, I…

I had big plans for this year, this agility season I would be competing Spudley and Lilly for the first time. The last few years I have been working on their ringside skills, such as calmness when queuing, the vast number of dogs doing exciting running and jumping things, and not being worried by spectators.…

As you can imagine from the title of today’s blog, all has not been going as well as I should like in relation to my diet and exercise plan. There have been a number of reasons, or excuses for this. However I am not going to dwell on those here. Suffice to say, today I…

Despite deciding to withdraw Lilly from the Crufts qualifiers this year, I want to drive forward with the other elements of my plan. This plan included following a diet and exercise plan from V SHRED. It also included improving my fitness through canicross 3-4 times a week, and following the exercise plans in the programme,…

Due to technical issues, that fortunately are now resolved, I have been unable to get logged into my website before now. This has prevented me from completing my blog so apologies for the lack of posts. Leading up to our first qualifier I was still teaching Lilly how to weave. Due to the absolutely awful…