| Time for a mid year review |
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| Written by Richard Garforth |
 End of May so how about a mid year review…. January was Bradford Championship show at its new permanent venue, Harrogate, I enjoyed judging, Barry and myself picked Trevor’s Marten Sable as our best from a very strong field. Around the stand business was brisk, our stand taking third place in the competition, many thanks to Rachel and Richard for their ideas and work to put the stand together. It was like a January sale, calendars were selling like “dates” at Christmas, and we took more members than we have for nearly 10 years. Our new website was launched, once again thanks to Richard, it is superb, www.northerndwarf.org and very popular overseas, welcome to our new American members, hope you like the calendars. February; to York for our Presidents show, Deanna Williams doing the honours for us. Another good entry, Remlap stud taking top honours with a cracking otter, also going best in the open show, how’s that for consistency in judging. March saw the website move from strength to strength, on line subs now possible, and this saw another batch of new members, we had to have more yearbooks printed.  April saw our Intermediate show at Bury and Radcliffe, Ros Waring picking Nigel Atkinson’s REW as her best, and what a beauty it looked. Lucy Wheal continuing her winning ways in the Juniors, Colin Bothamley out of hospital for the day penned a stunning under 5 month black otter going best in the open show, the script couldn’t have been written any better.  Keep in touch Gary and Deb. |