Eastham...end of an era...

Had our last weekend of flyball for a few weeks, a nice friendly and relaxed tournament hosted by the lovely Dolphins team over at Eastham on the Wirral. The weather was good and the racing too, the teams were slightly mixed up as we had some people missing so were running 5 instead of the usual 6 teams which saw both Dottie and Faith promoted to higher teams but we had some incredibly tight racing in all divisions, really good fun!

The pups all came too and now they've all had their full course of vacciantions got to have a good nosey round the show, sorry no pics because I forgot to take my camera (batteries all charged up and ready to go but not a lot of use on the hall table...doh!!)

Saturday night was a good laugh when the Dolphins decided to run a 'human flyball' competition, there were plenty of people wanting to have a go so we actually got together 6 4-person teams and ran it in the usual tournament round-robin format. Paul, Alison, Gem and I ran as the 'Demon Dogz' for the first time (lol) and my god it was knackering!! I have decided that it's much harder for a taller person to get a good 'turn off the box' because we have such a long way to bend down to catch the ball!! Gemma had a cracking turn though (short-arse that she is!! lol). John Clarke was taking lots of piccies (much to his amusement) so I'll keep checking the Sunnyside Photography website and post another link when they're on. Anyway, the Dolphins team won it (fix!!) and there was a single leg run of for 2nd between Red Rose and Demon Dogz with Len just pipping Gemma and pushing us into 3rd place...oh well, we had fun!!

All in all a lovely weekend of flyball and a nice way to end our time running as part of the Red Rose gang. We have a month off now and will be back out as the Demon Dogz at Rotherham on the 12th July. Alison and I will be at Blackpool champ show this weekend, Friday with Squirrel (eek...my first time showing a parson and a very naughty one at that!) and back again on Sunday with the BC's. I hope the weather perks up...Blackpool always seems to end up being a mudbath!

Here's a link to our new team website anyway... Demon Dogz Flyball Teams

Sunny Blackpool!!

Well, what a fabulous weekend we had at Penny Farm hosting our own flyball tournament. The weather really could not have been better with glorious sunshine and cooling breezes over both days (quite a few very sunburnt competitors come Sunday evening!). We had a lovely time all together and the atmosphere throughout the whole show was so relaxed and friendly, what a lovely bunch of people flyballers are.

Hazell was again on hand taking more fab piccies...too many to put on here so if you want to go see, take a look at the album

Except...I just couldn't resist adding this pic of Lexie!! lol


There are loads of really fab pics of the Rockets lining up and running which is a little sad as this was the last time that team would run together, Trish is missing at Eastham next week and after that we will no longer be running under the Red Rose banner but under our new team name 'Demon Dogz'. I'm sure I speak for all of us leaving (myself, Trish, Gemma, Paul and Alison) in thanking all our team mates at Red Rose for their support in our new venture, it's very much appreciated and we all look forward to enjoying time together at flyball comps in the future.

It was such a lovely weekend, Kevin brought Sunny down on Sunday afternoon so Hazell managed to snap a few pics of him...




and here with his son, Jack (Hazell's young boy)



We also managed to make the most of the nice weather with some new piccies of more of the Bryning bunch...

Olive



Kitten





(demonstrating the impressive reach and drive she seems to have inherited from her daddy)

Spark



Dazzle


Although the heat and excitement just seemed to be too much for some lol



Fingers crossed for similar weather this weekend at the Dolphins tournament at Eastham. Leverhulme Park is a lovely venue for flyballing, lots of open space for running the dogs and nice cool walks through the woods (to the pub!); agility folks will know this as the venue for Wirral agility show.

Will try and get some new pics of Eabha, Viggo and Orlaith this week; they are all changing so much so quickly!