I love mud and hunting

Well, we've reached the stage where we wake up and look outside and hope it isn't a windy day, so that Ghillie won't pick up the trail of every deer, pheasant, mouse etc and disappear over the horizon on our daily walk. However, having learnt that dogs hunt into the wind I am able to tell other dog walkers where their missing springer spaniels are likely to be!

Ghillie has taken to swimming as keenly as he has to hunting. We chose the enthusiastic thug from your last litter, Mo. He is really keen to learn things, and he does get bored on weekdays when his walk is an hour and then he has to entertain himself for the rest of the day, with occasional bits of attention from us. Any suggestions, for entertaining a munster that can't type or make cups of tea, yet?

Here is Ghillie reunited with his lead, having climbed out of Tarn Hows where he was trying to swim out to the geese.

And here I am exercising my ears -