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Posts archive for: 9 June, 2008
  • ROUTE TO NEWHAVEN

    Have finally worked out the cycle route from London to Newhaven and you can view it on line at http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1949765. This will let you see all of the route and give you some idea of where I will be cycling. The French part of the route will be available as well in the next few days.

    Spent most of Sunday trying to fix the front gearing on my bike - could not get it to go on all three rings when I wanted - it was usually a combination of any two and on many ocassions only one. Did all the things that I thought you needed to do and it did not make any difference. Eventually I got it fixed and the thought came to me that if this happenned on the charity cycle it would have taken me some time to fix - now much more confident that I could fix it if needed.

    Now come to understand that I will never lose 1 stone by the 1st of July so guess I willl be around the 12stone for the cycle. Heavier than I wanted with a bigger beer belly than I need but still confident I will manage

  • COLLIE DOG TRAINING

    As a Birthday/Christmas/Anniversary present - well it was one of them, vanessa treated me to a days Collie Dog Training at mainline - what a great day. As you know, Fly is my collie dog and I got him from a rescue centre about 9 years ago and he was about 18 months old when I got him. Took him to dog trainig classes and he is very obedient and a great dog to have.

    At Mainline, you work with the dogs that they have and it is an incredible exoerience - to be able to get a dog to move three sheep towards you and at the end of the day have the dog take the sheep through an onstacle course is amazing. It makes you ralise how intelligent collies are and how necessary the are for farmers and many people to carry out their work. It made yo ualso realise how stupid we are as humans - irrespective of how many times I was told to keep walking when I was asking the dog to stop and "lie down" I stopped as well - it appears this is common with us humans. Tell a dog a couple of times and they learn, tell us hundreds of times and we still get it wrong!!!

    Mainline can be found at www.bordercollies.co.uk/ and is run by Barbara Sykes - it was Vicky her daughter who took our group and she was excellent, with many stories about collies she had, has worked with or new about - trully fascinating. if you love dogs this is the day out for you. Very difficult not to rush out now and buy a young collie for training.

    Good call by Vanessa on this day out - many thanks.

    Take care and stay safe

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