The Royal Wedding - proud to be British!

I dont care what anyone says, no-one does pomp and circumstance like we do! I was sooooo proud, this was Britain at it's best - and we saw the flyover going past here before it descended on Buck House!

Happy 13th Birthday Bailey

After having a couple of wobblers over the last two weeks Bailey celebrated his 13th birthday. He is for the time being fit and well and totally enjoying life despite being totally blind.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAILEY! xxxx

Late on-set PRA DNA Test Result

Waiting for these results was for me agonising! Having lived with a blind dog for over two years I desperately wanted my dogs to be clear - if not a carrer. The results were that Harvey is CLEAR (which is so good for his kids and grand kids) and Brodie is a CARRIER which isnt the end of the world but a little disappointing.

Two new additions to the Billingham menegerie!

Today we welcomed two new chooks into the garden - Nugget and Tikka a Sussex Light cross and a Cuckoo Maran cross.

Crufts 2011 - Brodie continues to do well - even at the largest dog show in the world!

Brodie did me proud by yet again being placed at a championship show - not just any championship show but Crufts where qualifying is an honour but to come home with a prize is just brilliant!

Brodie came third in Special Yearling therefore qualifying him for Crufts 2012!

Brodie continues his winning way!

Winning the Special Yearling and coming second in Undergraduate - Brodie continues his winning way and at last is beginning to behave!!

Books.....Room by Emma Donahue

A wonderful book like no other book I've ever read - very clever.

About a little boy, Jack who was born into captivity and have never known anything other than the room he lives in with his prisoner mother - all told from the perspective of a five year old child.