Morning tea with Diana after upsetting her the night before and then out training with Sam, pointing and retrieving successfully.
Still a bit chilly but the wind had dropped and it was dry when I let our new white doves out today
I had disturbed and upset Diana late last night and she went off to the spare room to get relief from the stomach cramps of her monthly cycle. She was back to wake me with morning tea before I got dressed and ready for breakfast. After giving Sam a short run locally, a car ride up to Molesworth where I got him hunting and quartering over lots of the farm on the village side of the A14.
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We could not find any partridges (which were probably over on the crops) but he came upon and pointed two pheasants later which was satisfying. Back to find both the handyman and gardener working and I chatted to them both. I let Sam follow the handyman around while he fitted the new door to the pool room and he was no trouble. Diana was out with the girls but came back late to make me lunch before it was time to take him out this afternoon. I put him into the water and gave him a run around the gravel pits.
He has successfully retrieved the latest pigeon a few times this last couple of days and I hope that this had cured him of the habit of mouthing them. Sometime today working in my office and attending to some urgent telephone messages and correspondence. This evening making several calls about dog tests and then updating this last two day's journal and taking a nice bath. Still a bit chilly today but the wind had dropped, and it was dry. I opened the cage door, fitted a landing ramp and then let our new white doves out today and they enjoyed themselves and returned to the dovecote tonight so that they seem to have settled in all right.