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As long as my wife and I can remember dogs have featured massively in our lives. When I was a young boy I was allowed to walk a red and white bulldog named Winston. He was great fun for a young lad in London and we would go “over the park” and “down the canal” and have many adventures, needless to say we could not have a dog in our flat or afford such a magnificent creature but the memories stayed long after we parted company. As long as I can remember I wanted a “Winston”. Hazel was always borrowing other peoples dogs as she could not have her own. Hazel and I met whilst walking our respective dogs at the time. Cupid shot his arrow !!!
and we married, started a family and started working to pay bills etc. We moved a number of times and found ourselves in a village near Peterborough where we met Gwen a lady who bred bulldogs. ( Gwen is a Breed Specialist Judge and Secretary of the Bulldog Breed Council), We were so lucky. She and Hazel got on famously and Hazel helped occasionally. However it was not until we moved to Wales and success in my career allowed me to buy Hazel a Bulldog from Gwen of Gwenstan Bulldogs for her birthday, we named him Drummond and he became a family favourite with our two boys
We learnt a great deal about Bulldogs from the knee of this extremely learned lady. Some time later we visited Gwen to show her Drummond and unbeknown to us she had some puppies. We had no intention of buying a puppy much less a biscuit fawn bitch ….but I have to say when we walked into that room our eyes locked and she could not take her eyes off me and I not off her, when I left the room she would not stop barking and so picking me
Sophie Sophie Socks joined our family, sadly they are both passed on now and I say sadly because they cannot fill our lives with so much every day. They really stole our hearts.
Nearby is the Wye river, second largest in Wales, which joins the Severn at its estuary and as Shakespear’s Henry V says “Not all the waters of the Wye can wash the Welsh blood from my veins”-a bit strange for a boy born and bred in London who still loves his Pie & Mash. We live here with our Bulldogs and life is good. The Bulldog family has grown, most weekends we are off showing somewhere collecting Rosettes and talking Bulldog. We have some lovely boys and girls and I hope you enjoy meeting them, perhaps even bringing your girls to meet our boys, for as they say……. Do a little dance
…Make a little love ….get down tonight
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