Yay!

[wellinghall]

A flatcoat has won best in group at Crufts!

Squee! and even w00t!

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I was watching, and as malaheed is my witness, the first thing I did was turn to him and say, "wellinghall will be pleased!"

[greenwoodside.livejournal.com]

*is puzzled* Flat-coated retriever? I don't have a TV at the moment.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

*is pleased for wellinghall*

*conservative soul shakes head at ongoing spread of leetspeak*

*conservative soul remembers pink jacket he wore in Portugal, and shakes head at self*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, a flat-coated retriever (from Norway) was awarded the best in the working dog group on the first day of Crufts yesterday. It will be going forward to compete for the title "Best in Show" on Sunday.

The connection is that my grandfather bred, worked and showed flatcoats for many years, winning Best of Breed at Crufts for nine years running :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*wellinghall remembers being slightly surprised himself at parrot_knight's pink jacket*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I thought you might be the first one to respond to this post ;-)

How are you both? We don't seem to have heard a lot from you recently.

[greenwoodside.livejournal.com]

*whistles* Impressive! They're beautiful dogs.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure what you're thinking was wrong with the pink jacket. It looked fine to me. You are one of two people that I can think of who could carry off wearing a pink jacket like that.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Who's the other one?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

And - thank you :-)

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I'm in New Job Purdah, too braindead to do much more LJing than desultory comments; Malaheed is well, but has some family worries preying on his mind. Thanks for asking :-)

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Ex-membership Secretary.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh. right. Thanks.

[bouncy-elf.livejournal.com]

It was such a pretty dog! And it seemed so happy at the Best in Show. Crufts just makes me go I WANT A DOG!! still mummy says no.*still holding out for that Dobermann* *sniff*. I have to say I think it was between the retriever and the Tibetan Terrier, though Fabulous Willy was just that.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The only shame is that they don't do flyball as well!