Silent Sunday … [edit] in The odd entries from life …….

There is change in our valley today, no rain or wind but we do have sunshine, the forecast is wet but not stormy; for those who are flooded it has come rather late. The other change is there will be a limited agility class, it will take a week or so for the field to dry under feet, so no charging round the agility course, it will be more obedience than jumping.

Looking around the garden there are the markers of approaching spring, on our recent travels there have been daffodils in bloom, nodding there flowers in the stormy wind! Here in our garden the daffodil bulbs are starting to form flower buds, as are the trees showing leaf bud, after our extended stormy winter I expect spring will seem to arrive in a rush; the winter may have been rough and stormy but also mild.

Snowdrops and …….

Camellia's ….

Silence defined in context, as used here today! The valley isn’t totally silence today, the noise of the storms have passed and being Sunday less noise from cars in the lane, and we are left with birdsong and the water coursing down the stream, the sounds that are a part of the valley, sounds that delight us at the start of day, but some times not heard if you are thinking; those moments when your putting the world to rights!

More of Sunday. Agility went well, but there was a poor show with today being the best day this year, Ziggy had just one companion and Lola two! My Daughter tells me the field was not to bad, the main problem being in the gate area; it was just like that on the Sunday before Christmas – I was very courses making my way through the mire! I didn’t go down to the agility field, as my appearances can make Ziggy a bit of the handful, but both dogs settled in and enjoyed their classes; as if the missed week's hadn’t happened.

Home once more, and a little visitor! Ziggy and Lola were resting after the return to agility, our Daughter had gone down to the garage, as she came up the steppes she found a little come down the steps; the dog was a Shih Tzud and gragging it’s lead. It had a phone number on the collar, I tried the number but it was busy, so my Daughter took to the dog down to the lane, some one from next door came quite delighted to have their little friend back.