I have been very busy during the autumn with my new committment as secretary of the Swedish Terrier Club. At the moment, with it having been Christmas and all that, things have been pretty quiet but expect it will be back to normal pretty soon.

In October some  exciting things happened. I went to Italy to judge at a very nice Open Show in Bergamo outside Milan. Even though it was an Open show there were some nice dogs present that went on to do well in the finals later in the afternoon. Weather wise I was taken back in time, and it was so nice to be able to dine outside in the evening.

The week after, on October 10-11th, the Labrador seminar which I had written about earlier in the year took place with Mrs Peggy Rae, Mrs Carole Coode and Mr David Craig giving talks on the breed standard and the history of the breed. Mr James Hindley also took part and is equally keen and knowledgeable about Labrador subjects.

There were 70 partcipants from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Russia, a few less during dinner in the evening and we had such a lovely time. I shall try to enclose a photo from the event on this blog as soon as possible.

On January 3rd, my Thornbreaker's Bit of Class (Ch Carpenny Hurricane x Thornbreaker's Wee Bit Of Style) gave birth to a lovely litter of 1 dog and 9 bitches, all black, by Annuals Trendsetter. Trendsetter is out of GB Ch Abbeystead Tranquil who's by Cambremer Tom Cobbley of Charway, Bit of Class is a maternal granddaughter of Cambremer Wellington (nephew of Tom Cobbley) so the breeding ties in nicely with that of Trendsetter. I enclose a photo of Bit of Class - Blondie for short - when she won her first CC under breed expert Mrs Eva W Mjelde of Surprising Labradors, Norway, a lovely sunny day at Borås two years ago.

On Saturday I will go to the international show in Gothenburg MY DOG. See you there!