This is Bonvivant Yvre, a Cliche/Chili pup who is flying to Estonia next week to Tiia who is going to train her for Obedience and Agility. Her sister Chic is staying here at Bonvivant in partnership with Terry Donovan (Mr.Polo).

It has been a busy few days getting ready for our trip to Scotland for the NBSDC open show and SKC Championship show.

Bonvivant Deja-Vu owned by Barbara Walker Smith has been out at Agility again and got 3 more Clear rounds in Agility, Jumping and Power and Speed.

Riley has been competing again and has had a 9th in Allsorts.

Ralph in Ireland won an Open, all grades Agility!! It is really nice to have so many dogs out there competing and enjoying themselves.

Jo and Grace have had a good weekend(see their respective blogs for updates) and by now David and Rusty will be on their way home from Prague and the World Champs.

I forgot to mention the Breeders Team class--this is the second time we have done it and I must say it does give a bit more flexibility being able to choose your team on the day. It was a shame that Chamonix was unable to be there as she was in full season or I could have made two teams of four up.

This team comprised of Crusoe,Vienna, Deepha and Sam and I think it worked quite well.

Both club shows are holding breeders team classes at the August Championship shows which should be a spectacle, I hope more people get interested in these as they are a showcase for the breeders. It should be quite good, I wonder how many teams I can make up as I think there will be quite a few puppies entering this time as well. What a shame we only have CC status for Malinois at the BSDA of GB show on the Sunday, not at Norbel on the Saturday.

CH. Bonvivant des Iles Fidji

Bonvivant Lumiere
Bonvivant Saumur

and Bonvivant Tete a Tete

Bonvivant Nonpareil with Stonedragon

We have a new Champion !!!!!

Bonvivant des Iles Fidji (Cliche) gained his 3rd CC at Birmingham National Ch. show under judge Keith Baldwin.( Cliche was bred in France by Brigitte and Remy Dugue.) Many thanks to Jacqui Avery who handles him so well for me. His son Bonvivant Tete a Tete (Crusoe) was RDCC. Bonvivant Nonpareil with Stonedragon RBCC. Sami and Helen took the photos which is good as now I know I should go on a diet as well as how the dogs looked in the ring.

Bonvivant Voltaire at Grizwold was 1st in Laekenois JD/B and RBD.

Hot off the press !!! Rusty was 2nd in the individual Jumping in Prague and has qualified for the Jumping Final !!!! Brilliant news and I am so proud of the pair of them. Way to go Rust !!!!!!!!!!!!

The weather has been cold, wet and windy for the past few days and Celine is not impressed, so to cheer her up I let her have the end of the yoghurt pot. She loves yoghurt and ended up wearing quite a bit of it as it was a large pot and she had to put her face in it to reach the bottom!

David and Russty are now in Prague with the UK team for the BSD World Champs so Best of Luck to you all. Competitions start Friday with a training session tomorrow. I will keep you informed as to how they get on.

Cello has been training again and is getting the hang of his retrieve. I wasn't feeling brilliant so messed up his heelwork--must try harder!

Speedy is in the doghouse as he has been "finding" wires that have been tucked away out of his grasp, but I don't think Jackie can be cross with him for long as he is such a handsome chap :))

Venus Speedy

Yvre
Chatter and Rodes

The weather has been really lovely this past week--despite ending cold, wet and windy which is a bit of a shock.

It has been an opportunity to do a lot of jobs out and about in the garden. The dogs have been sunbathing in the paddocks and I have been trying to tidy up the flower beds. I have been tempted to make another blog linked to this one as I love photographing flowers wherever I go. With the hot sun the wallflowers and Aquilegia came out in bloom, and the clematis, which was covered in tight buds, looks glorious. Because I struggle to keep up with a veg plot I filled two large potato boxes with soil and have planted herbs in one and aim to put a few veggies in the other one. I did manage to get some runner beans in and planted some daisies, asters and an osteospermum on Ciels' grave, I shall take some photos once it gets established.
The puppies are growing as usual and getting into all sorts of mischief. Chic and Yvre went for their microchips and Rabies vaccination and were very good pups.

Photos of Beco (Brizo son) in Ireland and news that he is doing very well in training. It was the Laekenois pups First Birthday on the 1st May and I hope they all enjoyed themselves. Venus in Guernsey had a birthday cake and some new toys ! Vogue had a big juicy bone.

This week the GB Team are off to the World Championships in Czech GOOD LUCK ! to you all and especially to Dave with Rusty (Bonvivant Kallisto).