Hi Everyone,
I just need some re assurance that my Springers behaviour is normal!! We have only had him a few months so are still getting to know him and he is 20 months old. It just started hailing really heavy so we called him in from the back garden and he went mad scratching the door to get out again so after 5 mins of this i relented and let him out to which he ran round and round in cirlcles at about 50mph then came back pelting at the door and if i had not been standing there to open it again he would have gone straight through the glass!! anyway since been back inside (15 mins) he has only just stopped biting us and has collapsed on the sofa asleep??
He does have a problem with biting anyway (not aggresively) but it does sometime hurt and is very annoying, so if anyone has some handy hints to stop this it would be appreciated. Thank you.

Absolutely normal :) in fact I'll swop you for my 3 yr old springer who does that at least 4 times a day, and each time she does it its a perfect figure of 8, now worn in to the lawn and visible from the bedroom window, another week or two she's going be through the grass and down to bedrock :)

Our 11 month old springer hasn't mastered figures of 8 yet she's still doing the racing track routine round the the out side edge of the lawn.

As to the biting, the 11 month did that, we stopped it with a firm "NO" and turning our back on her.

Perfectly normal - one springer we had use to run out the garden, do a perfect lap around the lawn, through the bushes, around the trees and then diagonally across the lawn at least four times, go a wee, run around again, bark at the crows flying over head, bark at the woodpigeons in the trees, run around some more, come hurtling down the garden, leap off the top stair (there are five steps from the top part of our garden down to the 'patio' part) and come to an abrupt stop at the back door - bang with his full body force on the door, you'd open it thinking he wanted in, but in the few seconds it took you to open the door he had got bored waiting and gone off to do a few more laps around the garden !  Call him in, he'd come running back to you, tail wagging like mad (sometimes feared that his backside would wag off) sit beside you, get a treat and a big fuss for coming when called, he would then flake out on the floor for a while until a few seconds later he would hear a bird or a cat and then he'd be up banging at the back door to go back out and the whole thing would start again :)
Welcome to the mad, strange and unexplained world of springers :D

Thank you everybody, he does have me in stiches sometimes!! :)

Sounds normal, but teaching a 'settle' command by making sure he gets rewarded for periods of calm is never a bad idea.

BTW, my own springer threw a mad 5 mins in the garden the other day, and joined me in the hot tub!  Not all springers like water, ''specially not at 37 degrees - and still have the scratch marks to prove it!