I have been somewhat rude in not introducing you all to Carlin before now, Carlin is my big brother Black Labrador, he is an elderley gentleman nowadays and not very well but he taught me so much good stuff like how to tell which rubbish bins have the best tucker, how to 'retrieve' things and even how to swim. Carlin and I took Annie all down the coast of WA back in 2006! We had a lot of adventures together, even being puppynapped, gulp gulp that was very scary for both of us....Carlin does not come on big trips any more as he doesn't see well now but we still all walk together 2-3 times a week and he is still my big brother!

Ooooh, only 1 more sleep in the boring (stays in one place) house then 1 sleep in our new H.on.W but in our garden....and then we are on the road for 5 weeks and a bit! We are two very excited little Whippets.

Connor is so looking forward to seeing his sister and his Whippet mummy and 1st Mum again that I am sure he will spend most of the trip woofing 'are we there yet?' at Annie and me.

Annie has lots of stuff to do tomorrow, the first day of her holidays - we have still got to fill water tanks, and Annie said a very scary thing this evening, she said she was not sure that the fridge was working....gave me a fright I can tell you. So Annie will have to try and get it working for the trip or we will all starve.

We have lots of stuff in the van now and some pictures up too so it is starting to look like our home, we just need some more Whippet photos and maybe a throw rug for us too.

I did a obediance trial last Saturday - well I did about the first 2-3 minutes at least, before my nose got the best of me, again.....Annie was fairly cross with me this time, she said I didn't even try, I did try, I looked everywhere for all them tasty morsels over by the BBQ's....she didn't mean that I'd say, by her expression.

In fact she was so miffed that when we got home she walked Connor and me, fed us and then went out to tea on her own.

Never mind by the next morning she loved me again and we had a good Sunday!

I had better leave this blog for now so she can get her beauty sleep for her busy day ahead tomorrow, Connor is already asleep.

I should have some good tales to share when we are out on the road!

I know I know, I have been very slack in doing my blog thing, we have been having so many nice long runs that I come home and all we want to do is crash on Annies bed, (see example above).

Connor has been showing off but he didn't get any more ribbons, I did an obediance trial last night, I got good marks for my stand for examination, recall, change of position and stays but while I was doing my heel work we swung around the figure 8 person and my nose was pointing straight at the tree where Annie had let me lift a leg before I went into the ring, and I remembered there had been some biscuits on the ground there (tiny teddies, to which I am rather partial) and I forgot myself and raced over to see how many I could gobble down before Annie realised I wasn't heeling with her any more....not many as it turned out...she called me and I raced back to her (people outside the ring were heard to say 'what an impressive recall') and we went on with our work out, of course I had sort of blown it but we went on...I lost some more points for not going right down on my tummy for all the 'drops' whilst we were heeling too, that really confused the Judge lady coz she said at the end how was it I could do such a good drop in change of position exersize but not in the heeling?

The stays were a terrible temptation coz I kept tasting them tiny teddies all the way through and glanced over to where they were on a couple of occasions, just to make sure no one else had found them!

This morning we went to the park for brunch after first training with Loki and Freya, all went very well and Annie did a lot of work on my drops, I have a feeling I will be doing quite a few of them this week! At brunch I blotted my copybook and snapped at Kodi the GSD puppy, I am all over puppies right now.

Connor thought he was great fun though, they played and played.

we are both rather tired again now and taking advantage of the fan over Annies bed again.