Sunday, 8 August 2010

Dogs Galore

I have just been to the annual Moy Game Fair near Inverness which has everything hunting, fishing related - and you have to have a dog to attend! (we only saw one other beagle there though). We saw some of Hector's close relatives, the foxhounds, performing in the showring.


We sneaked a photo of a very stylish looking couple with their gorgeous dog.



As well as being a wonderful event to visit for dog lovers, Moy is a foodie paradise. We bought some beautifully decorated cupcakes from the Butter Boutique and a big chunk of chocolate with popcorn pieces in it from a fantastic stall selling all things chocolate related - the diet starts next week!



Sunday, 1 August 2010

A Very Long Cycling Trip

Just had a visit from an old friend who has cycled the entire length of the country ie from Lands End to John O'Groats, an achievement which I am highly impressed by to put it mildly. I do possess a bike and enjoy cycling but if invited to go cycling by friends I always enquire first if there are going to be major hills involved and, if that is the case, find that I am double-booked for that evening!! Holland is my kind of cycling, ie flat. The sort of bike that I like best is the old fashioned 'sit up and beg' type with a little basket at the front as pictured above. Whenever I hear about people who have successfully managed to achieve these major physical challenges I wonder to myself, could I ever possibly manage to do something like that without dying in the process? One thing that I heard a while back was that more people have climbed Everest than have swum the Channel, a fact that surprised me somewhat. My next, somewhat less ambitious, physical challenge will be walking the Cateran Trail which is in Perthshire and Angus in Scotland. My daughter informs me that blog posts shouldn't be too long so I will take her hint and love and leave you.