Combining Local Election organisation in Buckden and The Offords with dog training in Eastwick, near Harlow where another of the GSP Club's training sessions was scheduled.
I found that a select few of us were being taken over to a nearby farm shoot again to do some more Spring Pointing practice and Sam was deemed to have made the best progress.
Checked up on the campaigns in the evening where we were doing very much as expected but I was worried about lack of canvassers out and did some chasing round as a consequence
Lovely sunny weather today at the beginning of Local Election week and I gave Sam a bit of a run this morning and did some more water and land-based retrieving before doing some election work before lunch. It was the day our last leaflet was being distributed around the campaign trail and, in particular, it was Buckden and The Offords that we were hoping would benefit from the effort.
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An early lunch so that I could get away from all this and drive down to Eastwick, near Harlow. where another of the GSP Club's training sessions was scheduled. I took a lot of care this time to make him obey me and be as steady as possible when he arrived and only then let him run around and play with the other dogs. An early dip in the water with Jim's dog, Ben and he took to it fine but then I found that a select few of us were being taken over to a nearby farm shoot again to do some more Spring Pointing practice.
Sam did quite well as we had some individual instruction from Mr Botterman during which I picked up some good tips. Jim ended up being told to go back to some more obedience training and Sam was deemed to have made the best progress. A good chat over some tea and cake and then the journey back in time for a late tea. Checked up on the campaigns in the evening where we were doing very much as expected but I was worried about lack of canvassers out and did some chasing round as a consequence.