We made the most of the beautiful weather today by taking a lovely walk around Crondall to blow the cobwebs away after our Christmas visiting. 

Here are a couple of pictures of the mucky pups and little video of them having a doodle dash:

At the Kelluki Christmas show, Dean from Gemsdale was on hand to take some fantastic pictures. Here are a few that he took of Ruby and Pepper - I particularly love the first two:

What a blast - Agility, but not as we normally know it, and a great way to finish our 2015 season!  It's not every day you get to run around doing agility dressed as an elf, although I'm thinking of making it my uniform for 2016

The Kelluki team did an amazing job hosting this event with fancy dress and classes that included:

• Christmas Conundrum/Take Your Own Line - We had to create our own course, taking each obstacle once, with a fixed start and finish point
  
• Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - a course made up of 4 sections, and in between each section we had to go round the Christmas tree in the centre
• Bauble & Spoon Steeplechase - we had to run the Steeplechase course while holding a tennis ball on a spoon which incurred faults each time we dropped the 'bauble'
• Santa Express - while running the steeplechase course we had to put on a beard, hat and Father Christmas jacket from three stations along the course
  

It was fantastic fun and Lyn laid on a fabulous buffet for everyone. It was also great to have Ian there who had come along with his Trophy stall to sell Christmas treats and toys.  Ruby especially liked having him there and ran over to see him during one of her runs.

Final results for the show were:

PEPPER

Advanced Christmas Conundrum (Small/Medium) - 3rd
Advanced Bauble & Small Steeplechase (Small/Medium) - 5th

RUBY

Beginner Christmas Conundrum - 5th
Beginner Bauble & Spoon Steeplechase - 2nd
Beginner Santa Express - 2nd

Here videos of some of the girls' runs from the day:

And here is a picture gallery from the day - click on the first picture to activate the gallery:

Another brilliant show by Sam and Becky - well run and fantastically friendly!

As usual we had a mixed day with some good work from both girls.  Ruby continues to find her agility paws and is enjoying her runs, and Pepper is mostly holding her contacts.  I'm entering the ring expecting them to be solid now, which is a huge improvement on last year, but I now that I can't let her get away with self releasing on any of them!

Our final results were:

RUBY

Beginner Jumping - Clear
Beginner Steeplechase - 2nd

​PEPPER

 Advanced Agility II - 1st
 Advanced Jumping - 2nd

Here is a video of Pepper's winning agility run:

Dean from Gemsdale Photography was on hand as always, and this time I had lots to choose from of Ruby, so here are my favourites: