30 Days Of Me - Day 09 - Something you’re proud of in the past few days.

Two things


Emma getting her degree

Sorry, the other one is about the dogs.


When you start competing you need to get your dog measured Toby came in as 'Standard' by 5mm this was at 18 months. You also need to get them re measures some time after they are 2 years old.


This time he came in at maxi by 5mm, this has taken the jump hight from 550mm to 650mm, and running against more dogs.


Back in May we took Charlie & Toby to an agility show in about 2 hours away. We were asked if we could go by a friend of ours who was judging there.


I had been running Toby for the past year or so and we had both been improving. However at any shows we had always had faults.


This show was his first at Maxi and things were going the same a usual, fences down. One of the events is called 'Gamblers', in this you pick your own course and each obsticle is given a different points value. You have to get the maximum points in an allotted time. At the end of the time you hava a set of obsticles to complete called 'The gamble'. This gamble at the end usually has two different ways to do it, giving you different points.


What I am really proud of is that we completed the course that I wanted to do, in the time specified, and then completed the high point gamble as well


To top it all, when the results came out, we came first so got a piece of glass as well.


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Friday Fun - Google translate is fun

This link contains text that was translated by Google Translate.

http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_thread/thread/123bd2d82822a3a7/00591708f5fa479b?pli=1

Just great what a mess it makes of it.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 08 - Short term goals for this month and why

Don't have many.

• To finish this '30 Days of Me' then I can get on with the rest of my life. :)
• To finish getting my CMS site working.
• Set up a website to show case my design capabilities.

The last two are linked, I need to do this just to keep my mind going. It does not any work during the day.

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30 Days Of Me - Day 07 - A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you

Don't have one in particular however on reflection

‘John Norman’ the author of the Chronicles of Gor. 


I picked up a book from the series when I was about 13. Remembering that at that age because of my dyslexia I had a low reading age. At 11 years old it was about 7. 


'Tarnsman of Gor' This was the first proper book that I read from cover to cover. After that I got a library ticket and then read every Si Fi book in the local library by the age of 15. Now since I did not have anything else to read I then started cycling into Bath (about 12 miles away) to the ‘Corn exchange’. Here there was an number of second hand book stalls, where I bought and sold any Si Fi book that I could get my hands on.

So really if I had not picked up one of his books I would a lot more difficulty reading, it is a shame it has not it has not helped me with my writing.

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Please note the Gor series is not very politically correct, but it got me reading

30 Days Of Me - Day 06 - Favorite super hero and why

Don't really have one, but if I have any here they they are. They are all from comic books which were a big part of me learning to reading.


Iron man

Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)

Ghost Rider

Wolverine

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30 Days Of Me - Day 05 - A picture of somewhere you’ve been to

Well I don't think that you will need many guesses as to where this is.


We had a holiday in 2002 in Cyprus. Deb, Emma and me, took took a 24 hour trip over to Egypt, leaving Martyn back in Cyprus with Deb's brother John and Natasha.


We have a few stories to tell about our trip round Cairo.


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30 Days Of Me - Day 04 - A habit that you wish you didn’t have

Snoring, and I am not the only one who wished I did not have that one.


I have a few others but that is the worse one


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30 Days Of Me - Day 03 - A picture of you and your friends

This is me and some friends on a beach in Jersey

Actually this is a picture of me leaching a WiFi which was not secured. One of our group managed to break there towing electrical hook up and I needed to get a wiring diagram to repair it before we went back. Good old Google!
Yes I was about 1/2 mile out from shore and Deb, who took the picture is about 1/2 a mile further out.

This is some friends when we are practising with the Frome Dog Training Club, for our day long demo at The Royal Bath and West Show in May/June 2010.


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