A useful morning yesterday with the keeper. lovely water. good hedgerows and woods and fields. Fly in the ointment is he felt the 'syndicate' would not wish to have field trials in the shooting season - which is contrary to the view the landowner held. Tests and Spring Pointing were OK - will just have to see. I think a panel judge or two and a meeting with all stake holders is called for.

Took himself with me on our drive around and he did his usual bit of standing on the cuddy box peering out of the front window. When we visited the water he went on point and flushed a pheasant from behind a tree - very pleasing.

On the way home stopped off for a bit of water work, as I had wellies on board I went in with her. She was on super hyper drive after getting wet, didn't wish to go home.

Another thought from the autism book - animals react to detail, it is the small things that stop them, if there are several connected to one behaviour you need to correct all the details not just some of them before you will get an improvement - but then it will all drop into place at once.