Charlie's October round-up

I know, I know this is a bit late and I’m sorry to my followers who’ve complained. It’s still only November 5^th. I do have an excuse.

Rob and Sue went off to Northern Cyprus for the last week of October and left me in the kennels – Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind the odd week there - I get to bark and sniff with lots of other dogs. But my typing’s a bit ruff and I need someone to help me put paw to keyboard.

So what happened here at Robinson Howell Partnership in October? Sue Started the month in Canada which is where Labrador is so I feel I’ve got an affinity with it. She went to a place called Moncton in New Brunswick and spent most of the time in dark theatres watching showcases – well that’s what she said but I’ve seen photos of her on a boat and at the beach. I like beaches – Labradors and beaches go well together. She went without me! She says she saw some good stuff and made friends with a man called Alan who she is planning an exchange with – maybe I’ll go along next time – just to check out the beaches.

I had to go into kennels again while Sue was away. Rob went up to Newcastle/Gateshead to a Creative Partnerships day. He calls himself an ‘ Agent’ but believe you me, he’s no James Bond! He says it was really good – a kind of open forum thing where they did lots of talking.

Just as soon as Sue came back Rob went off again, this time to Swindon – That sounds like a nice place too - I wonder if they have beaches? He went to a conference called the Magic Roundabout. I wonder if Dougal was there. He met lots and lots of arts officers and raved about a really creative school called Isambard which sounds like an odd name to me but...

Spot On Autumn tour carries on. Sue’s dashing all over the county to see Opera Singers, Dancers and big pigs. There’s still things happening and Sue says it’s all on the website.

The big news is that the new Lyndsey has started – I’m slowly building the size of the pack. I greet her really enthusiastically when she gets here in the morning and she seems pleased to see me too. I did do a bit of begging yesterday but it turned out she was eating Salad – yukgh – what’s the point of salad?

Hey – you know I said that Sue & Rob had been to Northern Cyprus. They went with the Blackburn People’s Choir and came back all smug and stuff ‘cos they say they’d sung for the President and first lady. I also found this picture of them singing to a dog which sounds much cooler to me. (The picture is copyright Katherine Palmer and the dog is clearly the best bit)

The Builders have been in here. I’ve really wanted to help with the tiling but was kept out of the way. You know what – It’s a dogs life round here.