Phew, What a Week!

It's Friday and we are having a quiet day today catching our breath after a very busy week.  Dad has been on holiday so we've been out and about all over the place.  I have to admit the week didn't start very well for us - we had a visit to the vet for our annual injections.  It was ok .... alright I squeezed myself under a chair and wouldn't come out when it was my turn to be seen.  Our vet (his name is Dave) was very nice to me although I don't recall him giving us any sweeties after out injections!To make up for all that, we went to the Idle Valley Nature Reserve for our walk.  It is quite close to us (no idea why we haven't been there before) and was lovely to walk around.  We picked a walk that we thought would be about 3 miles close to one of the lakes - it ended up being nearer 5 miles and we lost sight of the lake quite quickly! 

On Tuesday we met with Auntie Debbie and Judy for another walk around Clumber.  Once again Mum was very good off the lead and let me run free with everyone.  Judy brought her 3 boys and Rye. 



She is lovely and I followed her around all day!  Another full day of walking followed by a picnic lunch and some gundog training for Rye.






Here's some photos of us having fun ....



I think that's Jack (or it could be Bean)




Fergus



No idea who this is!



Dougal in full flight

The Gang of Five!

Wednesday was a quiet day as Mum had to go away to Liverpool, so we stayed with Dad.  We did go shopping with him for a while as he had to collect a new 'bit' for his camera.  I can feel a few photo sessions coming on!

And so to Thursday and great excitement when we arrived at THE BEACH!!!!  It was our first visit of the year and made doubly good as we were there to celebrate Fergus' birthday - he was 7 on Thursday - Uncle Dave's birthday the day before and Dad's birthday on Sunday.  It was lovely and sunny for our walk of about 5 miles along a deserted beach and we all behaved beautifully.  I only went casing birds once and after I had scattered them particularly well, I ran back to Mum.  We had a bit of a camera sessions when we got back to then cars with Murphy acting as a model (he just loves it)

 then it was off for fish and chips and home for a BIG sleep for me.