Stubbylee Blog

If all the vehicles displaying Motorway Maintenance stickers were banned from the roads there would be no traffic congestion.

Why is it that so many people can afford to drive expensive Mercedes & BMW’s but can’t afford a hands free headset for their mobile.

Beware of cars driven by people wearing head gear. These fall into 4 categories.:

1. Women in headscarves or hats (in some cases both) who will spend more time talking to their passenger - invariably another woman similarly attired - rather than getting on with driving.

2. Elderly men in flat caps trundling along in the middle lane at 50mph because that’s fast enough for them and should be for everyone else

3. Baseball cap wearers either boy racers or middle aged men determined to let no one past

4. People wearing baseball caps back to front - Sorry but if you can’t even put a cap on the right way round she shouldn’t be let anywhere near a steering wheel.

Traffic matricees lie. They tell you what the road conditions were like 2 hours ago or will be like tomorrow but any relation to what they are now is purely coincidental.

Travel news informing you of massive delays will come on the radio 30 seconds after you’ve passed the junction to avoid the hold up. By the way why is there so little travel news at weekend - doesn’t our journey to do something interesting matter? During the week when you are only trying to get to work the damn bulletins interrupt every 2 minutes

We went down to South Wales yesterday, taking Magic (S. Magic Moments) for her first show. Although she’s had plenty of ringcraft classes -well 1 - we weren’t quite sure how she would take it all.

She loved it!

She took everything in her stride meeting people and other dogs. First she’d carefully lean forward with a little wag of the tail and then it was hello please talk to me. In the ring she was the baby in a big, competitive puppy bitch class but showed confidently, moving really well even starting to extend at times. We were thrilled when she got 2nd.

Zorro won his class and Diva got 2nd in her class but didn’t move well, I think she wanted to go to the loo rather than show. Taking Diva to the loo is an epic exercise. She wanders around a bit until she closes in on a suitable spot circling around like a horse on a lunge rein until the exactly right place is found, start to squat, change her mind move forward about 6 feet start to squat again then No. Its not the right place We then wander around most of South Wales going backwards & forwards meandering all over like a directionally challenged drunk. Finally she finds the ideal spot  and does her business -in the same bloody place we’d found half an hour earlier.

 After the breed we’d entered the stakes classes the baby went really well in minor puppy but wasn’t placed, Zorro got 3rd in Yearling and then Diva was 2nd in the Junior stakes so we managed to collect some nice prize money.

 It was our first time at South Wales and were really impressed with the show and the facilities - one to go to again. Its just a pity we’ve got to go through the M6 / M5 junction to get there.