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December 22nd:
We would like to thank you all for the lovely Christmas Greetings! Now we have to finish our packing... we're going to move to a bigger house down the road, together with my boyfriend! From all of us - to all of you     A Merry Christmas!

December 16th:
We have a TV-star! At first I didn't understand what little Dallas was muttering about? We were just watching TV? But then I followed his eyes and yes indeed - he's watching the dogs on Animal Planet! He growls a little bit and sometimes even goes forwards to the TV and really watch. He also growls at lions and animals like that and now even at elephants! Well, little Dallas boy, I'm sure you'll only see elephants on TV, ha ha! 

December 8th:
They are so sweet, my little darlings! Dallas has fluched his first pheasants, spontaneously! As usually I wasn't preperd for live bird training this day... even if I do have trained gundogs. Gibson and Dallas runs out to an enclosed pasture-land with some nettle thickets... perfect hiding for pheasants... And of course there are some and two of them flies up and away. - Look, what a good boy I am! - Wow, here comes two more! My stop signal with the whistle was respected and both boys runs back to me and we continue our long walk. - Did you see mum, what I found!

Once again my warmest thanks for all the lovely congratulations to my precious Gibson, I'm touched to tears... 

November 27th:  Hurrah for Mr. Kim Bay!
I think I almost fainted of pride! I was lucky that my dear friend caught me in the ring by her warm hug... let me explain... We booked a train ticket from Varberg - Umeå, a nice little trip of 16 hours and God knows how many miles... sometimes you just have to be a little bit crazy ;-) We wanted to try our wings at SSRK's show in the North of Sweden... and the judge of our attention was Mr. Kim Bay, DK. My sweet Gibson wins Best Veteran and gets his CC-quality with an excellent critic: "8 years old still going strong, excellent type and general impression, correct size, very nice head, lovely expression, correct mouth with sound white teeth, very good neck and shoulders, very nice topline, good spring of rib, lovely coat with correct structure, correct tan markings, moved very well from all sides, stylish general impression!" In Best Dogs line up we surely showed off and my precious gains 2nd Best Dog with the coveted eagerly awaited first certificate!!! CAC!!!
He also becomes BOB-Veteran and Best Working dog! My dear company Britta with her bitches Travis Ace Of Base and SHCH Travis Hold On To Your Dream also wins their classes. So in Best Bitch I had the pleasure to show her champion to 2nd Best Bitch and Britta gains 3rd place with her open class bitch, who was so close to her champion title, §#¤%&! But warm congratulations to kennel Frostwork's with CC, BOB and BOS! How did Gibson do in the finals? Among 7 qualified retrievers and spaniels he wins Reserv BIS-Gundogs for judge Mrs. Anne Liland and our dear judge Mr. Kim Bay honours him among 9 veterans with BIS-2!  
An elegant picture of our ribbon collection can be seen at photo album #winning pictures! We spent the cheerful night by train going home... with a big happy smile on my face! Thanks for all the warm greetings by the ringside, telephone, mail and guestbook! My deepest THANKS to Mrs. Britta Dafgård for your always lovely company and for being just you! A huge KISS to my darling with my boys at home! And a special HUG to Mr. Bay of course! 
 

MY  PRECIOUS!!!

November 13th: 
SSRK show in Scania for Mr. Laurent Pichard. Little darling Dallas made his entry in the ring for the second time with such a drive! Puppy judge Mrs. Moa Persson gave the critic: "8 month old of excellent type and general impression, a pale membrane interrupts the nice expression, dark nice eyes, lovely occi, a bit straight in shoulders, short cobby body, nice angulations, uses his tail very nice!" Dallas gains 2nd Best Puppy! Then time for Gibson in veteran class: "Very attractive 8 years old black/tan, shown in beautiful condition, correct head, scissors bite, clean neck & shoulders, excellent ribcage, a little long in loin, strong hindquarters, slightly low tailset, very nice temper, excellent mover." With this critic Gibson gets CC-quality and wins Best Veteran! In the dogs final it was a tough competition so no placement. But we are very proud to congratulate Dallas' dad Shakima's Mambo to CC & BOS! Congratulations also to his grandfather MultiCh Corralet Tango on winning Best prodigy group in show! Finally Gibson also won Zvenskbrickan's Challenge Cup again as Best Working dog! We have a very sweet picture of Dallas and his father Axel which can be seen at the front page ;-)

November 9th:
I've just got to get me a digital camera! You do want to share your sweethearts on a picture. Especially a little Dallasboy, full of joy and so eager to please! If just dogs could talk... - I CAN carry myself, I can! Please Gibson, let me have your red dummy? Wow, a rabbit dummy! Gosh, so exciting! I want it! I want it!

November 7th:
On this special day the first Saturday of November, here in Sweden we celebrate All Saints' Day. It's when you give an extra thought to your loved ones who no longer are with you here on Earth. The whole family went to the Pet Cemetery to visit our old dear friend Tigge, the cat that left us for heaven 3 years ago. We lighted a candle at his grave and thought about him. Later on in the evening Halloween is also celebrated on the same day. A bit strange but... we hereby wish you a HAPPY HALLOWEEN! We had a tricky treaty night!

Great news! Gibson offspring eyetested and hip scored clear: Bergkällans Yamaha Virago & Bergkällans Suzuki Intruder!

November 4th:
First of all we would like to thank you all for the warm congratulations about Gibson's birthday and to our new little BLUE boy Dallas! It's nice to be in the "blue club"! *smile* 

And then I would like to tell you about yesterday and our "birthday party" in the fields.
Gibson understod immediately what was going on when I packed the bag with those special things. Unfortunately it rained in the morning so all the pheasants were laying somewhere else. So we had no live experience. But what does it matter when you can fetch anyway?! First I sent Gibson for a search of a pigeon I had left there before our practise. He was then allowed to carry it around as I introduced little Dallas to a birds wing... no problem at all! And he retrieved is perfectly! Gooood dog!!! Then he discovered that Gibson had a bigger and more interesting bird... but oh no... you know Gibson would never give away a real bird. So back in the bag with the birds. After a while Gibson fetched a new pigeon and carried it along as we walked around in the fields. Suddenly Dallas turns around with a spontaneous reaction and finds a seagull I placed there before our practise. What a boy! What a natural talent! You understand that of course I cheered him up with my most foolish sweetest voice to really encourage and reward him :-) The seagull was a bit to heavy for a halfgrown cocker puppy so he left it and ran back to me, happier than ever! So big daddy Gibson had to retrieve it proudly of course. But now the pigeon was available and Dallas just loved it! Do you wonder what dear old Timmy did in the mean time? Well, unfortuanely he is not interested to fetch birds at all, so he just likes to ramble around. When we went back to my bike and the carriage we were all satisfied - first comes Gibson with his big seagull, then happy Timmy and myself, then right behind me little Dallas - the most happiest with his pigeon!

November 3rd:   
We have some thawed birds in our little store waiting for the traditional birthday activity, guess if we'll have fun today! It's gonna be interesting to see Dallas meet a bird for the first time. He retrieves the ball and dummy quite well already.

Gibson has a new picture at his page and some winning pictures in the photo album.

Oktober 28-30th:
Back to Shakima's kennel for a nice weekend again. On Saturday it was show for Mr. Karl-Erik Johansson and Gibson was shown in veteran class with this critic: "Ex. type and impression, lovely head, dark eye, well filled nose, lovely expression, nice teeth, good neck, prefer topline more straight, good spring of rib, excellent angulations, moved very well, nice coat, in very good condition, sweet and gentle." He got a tough competition among champion veterans and got the reserv place with prize of honour. 
He was the best in working class and won BOB-Gundog. In the finals he gained BIS-2!

The big bang of the day was really what I had in my arms?! We proudly present our new little member  - a very nice surprice!!! Thanks my dear Ann-Catrine for DALLAS!!!

We here by change our name to The Beach Boys!

Oktober 23rd:
A nice and sunny day in the forest. We had a picnic and found almost a whole paperbag of chanterelles. A fresh baked apple pay with vanilla cream tasted delicious at mother's place in the afternoon.   

On Saturday the Kennel Club of our county had an open show. Two of Gibson's girls were shown in puppy class. Ebba (Cockerqueen's Snow White) gained BOB-2 and Tindra (Cockerqueen's Tinkerbell) gained the 4th place. Congratulations to Occis Sugarbabe with BOB-puppy!

Well, it's the season with big F as in FUN! Even if we're not starting at field trials this year, we have a lot of fun here at home. 'Cause we have pheasants and partridge almost around the corner. And now and then we're out for a practice and having the best time!

Last weekend we were at my mother's and helped her with the arrangements for the Winter. She has a new isolated floor in her in-glassed terrace. It's like sitting in a jungle now! Lemons, figs, fuchsia, camelia, guava, pelargonium, bougainvillea and a lot more are now ready for the first frost... You're welcome to take a look here at Åsa's Green Garden.
 

September 22nd:
Well, the phrase says an accident strikes twice... This time Gibson was bitten by a Springer Spaniel. They have met a few times before but this time they didn't agree in some way... Fortunatelly it was only a tiny bite in the ear. The veterinary gave him a shot of antibiotics and then he was free to go home, thank God! The Summer is almost over and we can enjoy the huge grazing lands again that now are free from horses. Some lovely pictures can be seen in photoalbum #19.

September 12th:
The weather has been so lovely all weekend. We spent the whole Sunday in the forest and found some chanterelles, just enough for some varm sandwishes, yummy! But it started a bit scary... Gibson ran into a wasp's nest in the ground! We almost got terrified 'cause he was full all over by the little devils! Normally a sting swell within 20 minutes but threw the mobile phone the veterinary gently calmed me and said my Gibson wasn't allergic to wasp/bee stick as he didnt' swull up. Thank God! 

September 4th:
My mothers Persian S*Auric's Star Night was Nominated again this weekend and won BIS Junior! He won BIS for the 5th time so he is hereby JUNIOR WINNER!!! Congratulations dear mother!

September 1st:
Finally my foot is good enough so I could do a tracking with my boys! And they surely enjoyed it! So now they're satisfied and sleeps on the sofa the rest of the evening :-)

August 19-22nd: We've had a lovely vacation to The East County visiting our old dear friends at Shakima's kennel. It was so nice to see you again and we had such a pleasant time! Some Bar-B-Q on Friday night and on Saturday we where invited to The Open Cocker Show for Mrs. Sue Warrington. Unfortunately she didn't like Gibson but we had a nice sunny day with our friends. On Sunday we took a dip in the ocean and some lunch in Stegeborg. A weekend is always to short so then it was time to say goodbye... Thanks my sweet Ann-Catrine for EVERYTHING! Shakima's with Best Breeders group! »

August 13th:
OFFSPRING MEETING! Today we've had a lovely meeting with our puppies from Cockerqueen's kennel, together with daddy Gibson and playmate Timmy. We had a really jolly day with lots of fun in the garden, some grooming and showtraining. A nice cup of coffee and sandwishes during the brake and then the puppies tryed some tracking with a sausage, great! Daddy Gibson showed some field search and retrieving. The lovely day finished with a cocker race. Thanks to Tindra & Skrållan's family for your hospitality and to Anneli at Cockerqueen's for your generousity! Some pics can be seen at photoalbum #19 but most of them at Cockerqueen's kennel in "Bildgalleriet - Valpträff 2005". Hugs to all the other puppies who couldn't join!

July 30th:
Gosh, today we certainly know the name Leelekis Acanthus!
South West Cocker Club had a rainy but very nice show with Mr. Kim Bay as the judge. Gibson takes 1st place and wins Best Veteran with an excellent critic: "8 years old veteran still going strong. Very sound, correct size, very nice head with lovely expression, correct mouth with nice teeth, very good neck and shoulders, very good topline, compact body, good spring of rib, very nice coat with correct structure, correct tan markings, lovely temperament, nice hard body, moved very well from all sides, stylish general impression!" And with this he gains 3rd Best Dog! Then it was time to show all the qualified dogs and Gibs takes it all - Best Tan, Best Tracking & Best Gundog! After lunch I had the pleasure to show our tent company Travis Ace Of Base to 3rd Best Bitch and watch SHCH Travis Hold On To Your Dream to Best Bitch and BIS! Huge congratulations Britta! In the finals against the qualified bitches the winner takes it all - my precious Gibson! BIS-Veteran with Zazza's Challenge Cup, BIS-Tan with Sir James' Challenge Cup, BIS-Tracking with kennel Örliden's Challenge Cup and finally BIS-Field Trial with Lukaskannan's Challenge Cup (for the 3rd year in a row)! 
 
So we got a strong exercise with muddy clothes and my bad foot showed it's hand 
- but what a day! 4 x BIS! Thanks for all the warm congratulations and the nice company!

July 14-17th: Babysitting Gibson's girls Cockerqueen's Celebrian & Cockerqueen's Tinkerbell alias Skrållan & Tindra. The weekend have as you understand been extra fun/funny What a joy to know and see the family taking so good care of our "babies". See some family pictures at photoalbum #18 and the puppygallery in litter 6.   This weekend our little town also were invaded by Wheels & Wings. This is a big show every year with old cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes, so we had some nice days with picnics and Bar-B-Q, druling over georgeos cars...   Next Saturday it's time to babysit another of our babies, Classe (Bergkällans Kawasaki Classic)

July 9-10th:
Saturday; SKK international dog show in Tvååker, a nice bicycle trip of 15 km. So Gibson glide in on the ringside in his bicycle cart - so cool! ;o) Mister was a bit to masculine for Judge Mrs. Myra Thomas-Rhodes but got an honourbul 2nd Best Veteran with the critic: "Very lovely sound quality dog. Well boned & bodied. Super disposition. Moved very well". Then it was time for two of Gibson's offspring to debute officially, in Youngsters class with 7 entries. Noella (Bergkällans Yamaha Virago) got just a 1st price. I got the hard pleasure to show mummy Cockerqueen's Celebrian which was not an easy thing to do... but gosh she must have charmed the judge 'cause she took the 3rd place with CC-quality! Go girl! Mean time baby sister Tindra (Cockerqueen's Tinkerbell) had a kissing party with daddy!
Sunday; Well well, to masculine today too for Judge Mrs. Frances Hickey but today Gibson won 1st place as Best Veteran with the critic: "Typical dog. Well shaped head and good ears. Good neck and shoulders. Balanced body. Good spring of rib. Well angulated. Standing a bit slack in pastern today. Moved soundly". An old friend by the nickname "Bumblebee" won over him in the finals so he got BOS-Veteran, congrats!. The weather was on top all weekend but perhaps a bit too hot, so sitting in the shade of a tree with nice friends is perfect, thanks! 

Our "Greek God litter" #7 has moved to their new homes and we wish them the very best! Unfortunately the camera was on strike so there is no pictures... 

June 17-20th: LONDON!!!
We've been on our trip to London over the weekend! It was planed to Easter but I broke my foot you know... But finally we're here in this lovely city. We stayed at a charming hotel in Kensington. The weather was very nice, perhaps a bit too nice with 33 degrees Celsius! 
Arrived Friday afternoon and started with a couple of cold nice pints at the nearest pub. Strolling around town and had a good meal in the evening. On Saturday we had a nice and lovely walk in Hyde Park, shopping and more strolling in the nice weather. The evening ended with a romantic dinner á la Lady & The Tramp... As typical turists we took the red sightseeing bus on Sunday including; Trafalgar Square, Picadilly Circus, Tower Bridge, London Eye, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Harrod's etc. incl. boat ride on The Thames. After yet another hot day it was time for a couple of cold pints and a nice dinner. Unfortunately a fun weekend ends to soon so on Monday it was time to fly back to sunny Sweden. I will soon make a homepage from our London trip, the camera was bisy! Thanks honey for a fantastic vacation!

Congratulations to Gibson's lad Zorro (Tullebyns Double O´seven) with 4th place open class among 11 at Jönköpings Cocker club's Open Show for Mr. Jostein Halvorsen.
 

June 9-11th:
Been at Sweden Rock Festival 2005 over the weekend, fun with a lot of "strange" happy camping people, over 20.000. 

New pics of the puppies #7.

May 31st:
Now we've been at Bergkällan's kennel, visiting Ebba & Gibson's puppies, 3 weeks old! Se more at puppies #7

Can tell you that we enjoyed Beethoven's Number 9 at Gothenburgs Concert Hall on Friday! And on Sunday it was The Elité Race 2005 at Stockholm's trotting-course, Solvalla! Our favourite "Gidde Palema" won The Olympia Race in April but this time he was beaten... he is still the best!

May 22nd: A bit sore in my foot today... ouch! but we had a nice show day for Mrs. Jackie Marris-Bray, despite the rainy weather. Gibson met 5 of his offspring today. First out was Classe (Bergkällans Kawasaki Classic) with 6th place in Youngsters class. His sibling Noella (Bergkällans Yamaha Virago) was not placed but the siblings Skrållan and Saga (Cockerqueen's Celebrian and Arwen) came 4th and 5th in this big Youngsters class. Unfortunately Tova (Cockerqueen's Eowyn) was limping at the moment...    What about daddy Gibson? "Certanly has a spring in his step. Very nice type. Good bone & feet. Good shoulders. Very good condition. Good hard body. Would certanly last all day." Yes, he won both his classes and later on BIS-R Veteran and BIS-Gundog! It was a tough best dog class so no place there. Thanks to our friends and The West Cocker Club for a pleasent day with nice prices. Due to the weather we canceled our Progeny group. Full results at The West Cocker Club.

May 11th:
GIBSON IS A PROUD FATHER AGAIN!!! Read more at puppies #7

May 9th:
Our Walt Disney puppies has now moved to their new homes, best of luck! See litter 6.
My mothers Persian S*Auric's Star Night was Nominated again this weekend and won BIS Baby!!! Congratulations mother!
We have lots of new links, especially to Calypso English Cockers in the USA!

May 5th:
On request we've all the colours of the Cocker on line again, look at "mixed". A new Spring design is also on the site.

April 29th:
My boys are home! 'cause today the plaster is finally off, what a relief! Now the foot is only in bandage and I can walk quite well with the crutches. My warmest thanks to the Green family, the Svensson family and uncle Alf - you all took so good care of my boys! And my loving thanks to my Clas and my mother - love U!

April 21st:
Pictures of our Walt Disney puppies 6 weeks, see litter 6.

April 6th:
The puppies are 4 weeks, see litter 6. We went to see them at Cockerqueen's kennel one day during the Easter holiday, despite Annika's broken angle. She couldn't resist the adorable puppies and off course she got tears in her eyes of admiration and proudness... 

Gibson is home on the weekends now, we had a lovely Easter with the first picnic of the year, nice! During the weekdays he stays at his daughter Lina (Leilani) and the Green family where he's having a party!

April 4th:
Time for a "bone check" at the Hospital. All the 15 stitches is now removed and the foot is in a new lighter plaster. If you're interested you can see my x-rayed foot here... ugh! 

March 27th:
Pictures of the puppies 2 weeks the 22nd of March, see litter 6.

March 21st:
What a mess! I've broken my foot (angle) while we were bowling last Saturday night March 12th. Ambulance to the Hospital, operation, the foot in plaster and crutches for six weeks! So now I must lay in the sofa with the foot in high position all day long... And we miss our Easter Weekend to London... §%#¤%&!!!
 
Timmy lives with Uncle Alf and Gibson at Bergkällan's so they're having a good time anyway. The adorable new litter is just fine with 2 black, 1 red and 1 BLACK'N TAN bitch - 1 black, 1 red and 1 BLACK'N TAN dog!

March 11th:
First pictures of the puppies, see litter 6.

March 8th:
GIBSON IS A PROUD FATHER AGAIN!!!

March 6th:
04:00 A.M the alarm clock went on and it was time for a cat show with Annika's mum. This time her babies was shown and won Best Litter! S*Auric's Star Night was also Nominated and won BIS Baby!!! Congratulations mother! Take a look here »
 

February 20th:
Took a trip to SSRK Moheda where Gibson was shown in Veteran class for Mrs. Carina Östman. She liked him a lot and gave a really nice critic: "Wonderful lovely head with a wonderful expression, excellent neck and topline, very good angulations, excellent coat and body, perhaps a bit narrow in hocks? Really nice to see such a beautiful and well presented veteran, moves really beautiful all around with a lovely happy cocker tail and excellent temperament". So Gibs got CC-quality and gained 2nd Best Veteran, only beaten by "Louie", congratulations!
 

SLCH SVCH Tullebyns Two For The Show  is OBEDIENCE COCKER OF THE YEAR!!! (for the 2nd time!) & 5th AGILITY COCKER OF THE YEAR!! Owner is Mrs. Anita Pettersson.  Oh, we are so proud of Gibson's daughter "Clara" !!!

January 19th:
We understand if you think we're lost in cyberspace... but there has been a major storm here in South of Sweden that made some disaster and both the telephone line and Internet was gone for several days. And our computer is not quite well either... But Annika has had a real Lady And The Tramp Date! We're sure to see him soon again!