Hi everyone. Thank you Ali for suggesting I enter Jed for Paignton we enjoyed it despite the weather and please thank James for showing Jed for me. It was a whole new experience for both of us, I couldn't get out of the show ground because I hadn't down loaded the pass when I entered I'm that green! It was nice to meet you Karen, Tor and Andy and everybody else that I can't remember, i'm so hopeless with names. I was very pleased that Jed was so good, he's not always that well behaved!

David and I have been away recently on a two part sort of honeymoon, well holiday anyway, after we got married. One long weekend was spent with thousands of other people at a music festival and last weekend we went to Scotland with six friends got back in time for the Paignton show.

I first met a Munsterlander about nine years ago when I came across a litter in Somerset when I was delivering pet food for a company in Exeter. There were a couple left so I persuaded David to come and have a look and we chose one, having lost Davids old lab a couple of years before we felt it was the right time to get another dog. Not knowing anything about the breed but having had gun dogs before we were so pleased to see this beautiful dog grow up into a wonderful loving dog full of character. Sadly Baron had to be put to sleep last October (aged eight) due to a cyst on his spine, very traumatic, I'm crying as I type this I still miss him, so did our eight year old springer (he wouldn't go for a walk for weeks) but he's now turned into a grumpy old springer with a puppy to contend with but he's very good with him. Jed is a big handful come to fill our lives, he's a fairly well chilled character but very wilfull, I'd forgotten what having a puppy was like!

By the way, going back to a previous subject, Baron spent a week being called Buddy when we got him but it wasn't right. Then someone came up with the name Baron because he was a German breed and it suited him. They even nick named him Baron von Clinkerhoffen! don't ask me why!