Well, I was going to be modest about it, but since Kay insists...

Melvin (6.5 months) got 2nd in MPD and 4th in PD today :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

He showed himself off nicely, despite my truly dreadful handling skills, and thoroughly enjoyed himself!!

Ok... big-headed brag over!!!

Clare

Congratulations Clare - fab news and well done Melvin, a great start to your career :-) :-)

Well done Clare, and a wonderful addition to your 1st and 2nd placings at Three Ridings Lab Club last week, which you also kept very quiet about .. lol.

Mummy Beanie says well done Melvin..  (Oh Lord, I am going soppy :-P )

That is fantastic -well done!!!!

WTG ! An Exelby excelling yet again ! :-D

Well done the first few are the hardest. :-)

Well done superb results, and brag away i would lol

Congratulations :) :)

Woohoo well done :)

Be as big headed as you like Clare, that's brilliant news, WELL DONE to the both of you and Kay :-) Your handling skills can't be that bad :-D

well done! great result.

Thanks everyone :-D  I'm still over the moon... didn't do so well at a breed club champ show today (2 reserves), but I still beaming from yesterday... maybe I'll come back down to earth by tomorrow!!!

Well done and knowing how big Lab classes can be, it's a great start to your show career!

> knowing how big Lab classes can be, it's a great start to your show career!

Gosh, Absolutely!!!!!!
~~ Well done!! you brag away well deserved!! ~~
Great news

Well done to you both ! I have just realised that you finally decided on Melvin :-P

Well done :-)

Margaret

Fantastic news, Lab classes are so big, so very well done..

And qualification to Crufts!!! You'll have a super day there i can feel it!!

hehehe... thanks... I'm already worrying about it!!!  What on earth can I wear!!!?  :-D

Don't do what i did and leave it to the last minute. Choose a lovely suite, be it trouser or skirt one which complements the colouring of your dog. So if you have a light or white dog i would go for black or dark coloured suit, very easy to get.
Some great sales on between now and Xmas..

You got a yellow Lab?

Well done :-)

Congratulations!!!!! :)

Very well done to you, I'm sure you'll be smiling for a while yet!

Thanks everyone for the congratulations :-D

Melvin is a black Lab (the one in the piccie is Dexter, I don't show him), which will make suit colour all the more complicated.... what do you think of green or purple!?  Don't really think I'm a beige, grey or white kind of person...<runs off to check the M&S website, surely per una is the way to go>

Purple, Purple Purple, :-)

Be careful with green, i have a mainly black dog and the carpet at Crufts is also green.
Purple is a good colour, as is pink, red etc.. Colour's in winter can be tough to get, so would be on the look out now.
I have a brown mottled suit with purple bits in it from Next, wearing a purple top underneath. Its what i wore last year, but every time i wear it i don't have any luck, so may rethink the idea of wearing it next year

> Purple, Purple Purple,

I'm guessing (Don't know how?????  ;-)) but Kay thinks purple may be a good colour?