This trip so far feels like an optimal efficient holiday without feeling rushed. Yet when I think about everything we've done it sounds like we should be running here there and everywhere. The plan has worked well. Today we are off to the Warner Brothers Deluxe Studio 5 hour tour so before I have too …
Insert Cliche Here About A Long Bloggish Absence
I have written a post from May that's been in draft state for a bit of a long time. I'm doing that thing again where I just keep procrastinating long enough to make the task become mammoth and then daunting followed by downright overwhelming. I'm going to mess with the chronological code of blogging. I'm …
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A thought on teaching….
As a teacher if you let every prior "bad" or negative past experience with a student permeate every future experience with that same student you do the student and yourself an injustice. Teenagers may repeat mistakes, sometimes many times but they also change, many times. When I hear a teacher say "I hate that student" …
Open Letter to The West Australian Agility Community
Western Australia is a pretty small agility community relatively speaking. There are maybe 95 to 100 handlers/trainers/competitors in the sport and a number of those run multiple dogs. So a big entry for a trial for us would be around 390 runs. The biggest class is usually Masters Jumping, which has about 80 runs and …
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Self-improvement
I've taken the plunge and enrolled in some online agility classes. I've never had any in-built aversion to this way of learning but I have always possessed a healthy sense of cynicism about the veritable explosion of online classes that have hit the agility scene. This plus my definitely in-built aversion to deadlines and scarily …
March? Why so popular?
It's not even the end of the month yet and there is so much to blog about that quite frankly this post may end up being a two parter.One should start at the beginning I suppose for that is always a good place to start. March started with the Western Classic weekend and the SoundWave …
Sweaty Februaries, Visiting Teachers and that work/life balance thing
When all is said and done I am glad to be back at work, but I have to say after 14 months off I really had forgotten about how much of your life working full time takes up. It's not so much a culture shock right now as it is a whole time management shock …
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Test post – First run of 2013
Yay! It worked. Spryte and I have fun on our very first run back in 2013. Teams Jumping. She's very keen, I'm very keen it was great to be back! 🙂
Hormones, Hammies and Holidays
It's been a busy couple of weeks since my last post. I'm trying to make sure my body stays in that bed at 10 and up at 6 circadian rhythm so that I'm as prepped as possible for the shock to the system that will occur next week when I go back to full time …
A week, a Colt and a climate adjustment
We've been back a week and it has been a highly productive week I think. Especially when you consider how endemic our 'holiday mode' has been. For the first time ever in returning from overseas I have thwarted the insidious jetlag insomnia I always have. In bed at 10pm up at 6am everyday without fail …
Sprytelee Agility Training 