Crufts

Well, it was a hectic weekend anyway, but retrospectively, I did enjoy actually doing something for once even though I was constantly on the move.Friday night I caught the train(s) down to Malvern to stay with my friend Megan at her dad's house. By the time we got there it was so late we just decided to get chip shop chips and have done (We were really desperate just to eat something!) but they were still tasty.

We also stayed up quite late just talking about stuff, the trip down etc, Megan catching up with the news with her dad. For some reason the rest of the family were out of the house, so I didn't get to meet them, but from Megan's advice I gathered this was a good thing; she doesn't get on too well with her step mum and their kids.Saturday morning we walked their weird little Cavalier thing round a field, and my god, even at 9am it was like a hot July day in Yorkshire. 'Down South' truly is another world, everyone's too civilised, the weather's too nice, the grass is actually green... weird.

Then after that we decided to catch another two trains to get to the NEC and go to crufts. Crufts in itself was a really good day out. What I didn't like was the congestion, the lack of decent eating facilities (You're also not able to get your own food), and the fact that we never got to see the main events in the arena due to the queue's being too long. You'd have thought that with having tickets you could have had some sort of fast track into the place, but for everything you had to queue, and in most places it was very crowded. The whole place was also very poorly signposted. Other than that there was never a shortage of things to do.

We got to watch the showing of Miniature short and long haired daschunds, Irish wolfhounds, Salukis, Afghan hounds and Smooth Fox Terrier groups. And we trailed round stalls, watched demonstrations, saw every breed of dog there is... most people were really nice too and let you take pictures of their dogs. So I have quite a lot of good pictures :)