Clumber Park (well, what was…)
June 30th, 2008Flyball was meant to be at Clumber Park Steam and Country Fair, however the venue changed last minute and it was near Goole, at Home Farm.
We had 4 teams in Saturday, and as Ju is still in hospital, I said I’d help Jane out as much as she needed and I ended up with a job in every div! I helped my Mum run Chip in starters (but these days she needs me less and less, which is great) and they came 3rd, and Alpha Dogz who hosted the events gave all the starters a keyring with their dog on and their placing on the back; such a lovely idea. Then me and my trusty vice, Emma, captained the Eagle ‘Owlers who although they won a few races ended up 5th. Then I took up my usual job of vice captain of Nights with Jane, who also ended up 5th. Finally I ran Jet in Barney ‘Owlers in div.1 with Norah, Floss and George. Although we knew we didn’t have much of a chance without Murphy, we clocked an 18.63s over 14″ which is really good. That will be our new seed time now, so if we still don’t have Murphy for the next one, we will be able to be competitive. Jet ran her socks off though so I was really pleased.
On Sunday the Barking ‘Owlers were in division 3, with a seedtime of 20.03s from Tabley with the terrible two: Jet and Flossy. Seeing as they were in Barneys for the weekend, Mollie and Stripe did a fabulous job coming up from Night Owlers and they managed a best of 20.71s. I was boxloading, not a job I usually do (apart from for little Miko for the opposition - eeeep!) and I really enjoyed it this time. I yelled my socks off and shouted “go go go” more times than I care to remember. They came 3rd, which was brilliant to say a few teams went sub-20.
Then we ring partied for division 2, I’m glad Barneys were in div.1 as it meant we could be far more competitive rather than winning div.2 with teams doing best times of about mid19s, bar one or two that were very late 18s. We left halfway through the afternoon ringparty to go and see Julie and then I stayed with Jane and was dropped off in Huddersfield in the morning.
It was a good weekend actually, I enjoyed myself on the most part.
Emma has posted a video on her blog of all the teams. ![]()


