The Kickbike (Part 2)

Thought I would try Indi on the Kickbike today. She loved it! She took to it straightaway, no problems whatsoever. As soon as I hitched her up, said "Go", she shot off like a train. Even my Dad had a go!!

The Kickbike

Indi's Kickbike arrived today. Phone call from TNT asking where I lived at 7:00 in the morning...nice... Anyway, huge parcel arrived at 8:00 and after some faffing around I managed to get the thing assembled. It comes part-assembled, you have to put the handlebars and wheels on basically. Not too much trouble. Had a quick blast around the block and it's good fun. Have not tried Indi on it yet though, although she did have a chew of the tyres...

The Nordic Show

Decided to go to The Nordic Show in the end. I went for a couple of hours, some some people I knew and I also saw Sue (Indi's breeder). Watched the Malamute, Husky and Elkhound classes. Louie won the Malamute Best of Breed and to my untrained eye, I thought he deserved it. Meant to take the camera but totally forgot...

Going out in Cannock tonight with a few friends and hopefully will be a good night.

Oh, almost forgot - 2 weeks and counting for the non-smoking, I went and got my latest round of nicotine gum today after the show. My CO2 levels are still at 0...

Catching up...

Not too sure what I'll be doing over the weekend. Might go to the Nordic Dog Show on Saturday in Coventry. I have only ever been to Crufts so it'll be interesting to go to a "normal" show. I won't be taking Indi though...too many dogs...too many distractions...

Dog training went pretty well on Wednesday night. Indi is slowly but surely getting better with other dogs, she even likes to play with them now as opposed to eating them!

Had a Sales meeting yesterday at the Days Inn Hotel on Luton. It's not a bad place, the hotel is relatively new so it's all quite clean at the moment.

Malamutes & strangers

Just been to Sainsbury's with Indi, I take her there every so often to keep up her socialisation with strangers. As usual, she attracted quite a crowd of onlookers. Most say the usual things like "He's a nice Husky..." or "my mate used to have an Akita...". Today though was unusual. A girl got out of a Porsche, came running up to Indi, and the first question was "Wow, how much did he cost?", quickly followed by "I want one..." Now, Malamutes are not the easiest dogs in the world to own and you can tell which people will get on with them and which won't pretty much instantly...I leave it up to you to decide if I thought this was a likely Malamute owner.

Leaves, leaves & more leaves

OK, so I'm officially fed up with Autumn. At the bottom of the garden are a Poplar and a Sycamore tree, both are huge. At this time of year, they are dropping leaves constantly, but now they are dropping seed pods which Indi is taking great delight in eating. Not sure if they're poisonous (haven't seemed to have affected her so far) but I'm sure they're not good for her - especially the quantities she's eating! Will have to get the Garden Vac out tomorrow...again...

Borders

Went to meet Dan in Borders in Stockport today as they have a good Starbucks! Nice Cappuccino's...especially as they were free (long story about forgotten panini's). Discussed the MOST strategy for 2007. Seemed to get most things sorted out, just a couple of issues to address. I should add at this point that my job is a Business Development Manager. This basically involves me selling the MOST system across the UK. Typical customers are chemical plants, oil & gas, pharmaceutical...basically anything that can go bang!

No smoking

Almost forgot to mention this before...this is Day 7 of "Not Smoking". I joined a Drop-In No Smoking Group in Boots at The Fort Shopping Centre. They take your carbon monoxide reading, you pay a one-off prescription charge and you get seven weeks of NRT (gum or patches). You have to go back every week for your carbon monoxide levels to be measured. You also get some counselling as well whilst you're there. The first time I went, my Carbon Monoxide levels (I must find out the chemical name for that) was 30. Apparently that's really high and not good. Last Saturday it was at 0. Very good!! Anyway, Day 7 and all is well...

Casino Royale

Well, went to see the new James Bond film with my mom today. Was pretty good I thought. Daniel Craig is more than believable as Bond and it had all the requisite tricks, toys and turns. Have to say though that the best bit was the Aston Martin, that car is fab! My recommendation would be go and see it. Won't be everyone's cup of tea but I thought it was good entertainment.

The post...

The Malamute Calendar arrived this morning. Indi wasn't too fussed about the calendar, just more interested in the envelope...