We left Nellie and Arch at home and took Alec to a bonfire extravaganza at Sixpenny Handley run by the Scout troop.
Nellie and Arch are still having a quiet time - tomorrow they get a short 20-30 min walk, starting off on a short lead, and I'll be increasing the distance as the week goes on. Neither needed anything much at their session with Amanda earlier last week, and neither actually needed to have an enforced slow down for quite this long, but it seems like a good opportunity to just take things, even their walks, a little more slowly. Just to give the little tensions and tweaks Amanda found even more time to settle before they are allowed to hare about on their walks - and for Nellie to do some agility.
And all three of us looking silly...
I do like trying to take pictures of fireworks. Bearing in mind there's a time delay on the phone camera I was quite pleased with these..
Arch has never given a moment's thought to fireworks, and Nellie is fine with them nearby though she shows she is aware of them by looking to us to see what we think; one of our neighbours was putting up a few on Friday evening for their small son in the field at the end of our gardens and she didn't bother. Having listened to the shoots going on - game and clay pigeon - from 8 weeks old round here random shoot bangs don't faze her at all. We cycled right alongside a shoot on the tracks here once! I'm not sure how she'd react to the fizzing noises some fireworks make if one went off in a neighbouring garden though. Pop hated those sorts of noises even more than she hated the bangs. So far, thankfully, nothing has undermined Nellie's confidence and I hope it stays that way. Please!
Before we finally took Alec home, on a whim, we diverted to the Saxon hill-top town of Shaftesbury to walk down (and up) Gold Hill in the dark. You see signs for Shaftesbury (and probably pass through it) on your way to Gillingham show in September. It is about 5 mins drive from the show site. Haven't walked on Gold Hill for ages and never in the dark! It is the very famous cobbled hill in the town. If you are old enough to remember the Hovis advertisement on TV - the boy walks up (or down - can't remember) Gold Hill! With Dvorak's Symphony No9 'from the New World' playing in the background. Of course that is not why it is famous but it did boost tourism in north Dorset. I'm not a natural town dweller but I'd happily live on that street; the views from the gardens are breathtaking. We stood looking out over the Blackmore Vale from the 1,200 year old ruined Abbey walk as other fireworks went up over the town. Two displays then this evening!
Awesome! (one of Al's favourite words..)
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