Well, had quite a day on Saturday. "Only" took 2 this time after several months of 3 or 4 so felt quite empty and the trolley was a whole lot lighter LOL. Day started on a bit of a low once I saw the other cats entered however. In the pedigree classes was hoping Murphy would get his 1st PC but then saw the competition - Jack's younger 18 month old full brother and talk about a not-so-mini me!!!!! peas in a pod at first glance, in fact one personappa rently spent several minutes talking to "Jack" then, when I turned up, said "I didn't think you were bringing him" and I said "I haven't, that's not Jack" LOL. Soupie, however, saw through the "imposter" immediately and was quick to point out the differences Anyway, Open judge has a known leaning towards the reds, Maxi didn't look to be too bad type, and so I thought, ah well, never mind, there's always another day.

Over in the HP section Dream was entered in her first ever Imperial Grand Master Class and again, when I saw who the competition was - 2 excellent LH females who already have Imperials - in fact one of them has 3!! - I just gave up hope. With my future job prospects on the line soon I really needed to have a good day to cheer me up so I thought, sod it, I will browse the stalls, have a good English breakfast (amazing value there for literally everything!!) and enjoy the day regardless.

Anyway, breakfast over, browsing done, I found the results board and checked. No British section results but some HP ones so looked at the Imperial slip. Oh right, 560 Imperial, 548 Reserve, fine , nothing, hold on, 560??? Looks at catalogue - 560? Dream???? No. Looks up at slip again, yes, definitley 560, OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Over to pedigree section and lo and behold Murphy has got his first PC, not BOB but hey, who cares!

The rest of the day went very well too with Murphy finishing with 3 side class firsts (including one out of a class of 7 with 3 prems and 1 IGr Pr in it) and 2 seconds. And Dream? She went on to have her first ever red card day too so floated home!!!

I have to say, those GCCF Imperial Grand Master certificates are well impressive

Oh, and we did have a very amusing incident later with a lady, dressed entirely in black, topped off with what she described as a "poodle fur (?????) hat with large black feathers dangling from it, who was stood at Murphy's pen when I came up to it and asked "What is that?" When I said a Selkirk Rex she said she had never heard or seen of one before, although she knew Devons etc. I gave her a potted history of the breed as she was obviously not only fascinated but also completey enamoured with him, and she said she had recently lost her last elderly black Persian and had come to the show to see the Persians and to try to find a breeder to purchase two more - but they had to be black. She said she didn't like the "new" Persians with squashed up noses between their eyes (her words not mine) but he said she loved the look of Murphy. I told her about their temperament etc and she said she might seriously consider one, then, when I said one was never enough she replied that she would want two as she got her previous Persians in pairs so they had company. I was not too sure of her though, when she said whatever she got would have to be black as she aways dressed in black as I could no doubt see and she could not "change her wardrobe just to match the cats"!!!!!! Eccentric or what! The most amusing bit, however, was that all the time we were stood there talking Murph's head was bobbing up and down like a car shelf nodding dog and he was staring wide eyed at something. Then we realised that he was transfixed by the feathers on her hat which were also bobbing up and down as she moved her head talking LOL.

Carol