Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Hamish´s five generation PEDIGREE (dam´s side)



















I have had several requests for my new puppy Hamish´s pedigree. Here is his mother´s (Multi Ch. Sir Darnley´s Rambling Ruby) five-generation pedigree. If it´s hard to read on your screen, I can send it as a PDF on e-mail to anyone who wants it. I´m also working on his father´s pedigree - it´ll be ready shortly. Happy reading!

NB! Click directly on the pedigree to enlarge it!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

My lovely new PUPPY!



















My new boy Sir Darnley´s Undercover Urchin ”Hamish” (Dundee So Classic x Multi Ch. Sir Darnley´s Rambling Ruby) arrived in Norway today from Germany. I love him to bits already and hope he turns out well. Thank you for letting me have him, Maren!

You can take a look at Hamish´s mother (an excellent, quality bitch) on Maren Bichel-Schnock´s (Sir Darnley) homepage, click on the German flag, click on Die Sir Darnley´s on the navigator bar, click on Die Stamhunde( left). And scroll down do the second to last bitch: 

For Hamish´s father, who has done very well in Germany so far, bred in Sweden by Christina Hüttner (Dundee), click here: 
http://www.scottiekennel.de/html/willis.html

Foto: Montasje. Photo: Montage.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

UK BREEDERS: Give William and Kate a SCOTTIE!


















What better way to market our breed worldwide? Waitie-Katie would look good with a Scottie (it would help to up her working class background, too). Come on you UK-breeders - make it happen! Otherwise they´ll end up with a Labradoodle, or something equivalently ghastly and politically correct. Mark my words.

Photo left: Steven Meisel for Vogue magazine, 2009. Photo right: One of the official engagement photos by Mario Testino - my favourite portrait photographer of all times. He took the last portrait photos of HRH Diana, Princess of Wales.

Friday, April 15, 2011

HAPPY Easter!




























God påske ønskes alle venner og bekjente. Skal bli deilig med ti dagers feire!

Happy Easter to all my followers. Looking forward to my ten-day term break!

Card: KIMI BEE DESIGNS

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

FIND in Florence



























Fant denne på min skoleekskursjon til Firenze sist uke. En sjarmerende serviett-ring laget av tre på 50-tallet i Italia. Kanskje synd det kun var én av dem - det begrenser muligheten til å dekke til bankett! Kjøpte den på antikkmarkedet ved Piazza dei Ciompi, rett øst for domkirken Santa Maria del Fiore (verdens fjerde største kirkebygning).

This is last weeks find on my school excursion to Florence. A charming wooden napkin ring made in Italy in the fifties. Pity there was only one of them - it limits the opportunity to dress my dining table for a banquet! I bought it at the antiques market at Piazza dei Ciompi, to the east of the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore - the world´s forth largest church building.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

If a Scottish Terrier were A CAR...




























My brain is completely zapped after spending four days in Florence on a school excursion. To day´s blog is pure mental therapy, and in English only – as my last one was in Norwegian only.

In Florence I saw lots of great cars – I´ve always had a soft spot for Italian cars – and some time during the trip I remembered that in my previous work as an Art Director in an ad agency we sometimes tried to compare an actual living person to the product we were trying to market. Sometimes this helped us analyse the product identity more keenly.

Yes, you guessed it – even in this spectacular renaissance city – I started to think about Scotties. If a Scottish Terrier were a car, which car would represent the breed best?

Upon returning I haven’t quite managed to narrow it down to one specific car yet. But my favourite this minute is the car top left, a Rover 3500 Coupe. (This is the same type of car that HSH Princess Grace of Monaco crashed on September 13, 1982, while driving with her daughter Stéphanie to Monaco from their country home on the French side of the border. Princess Grace had suffered from a stroke, and died the following day).

Typical of all these cars (an American Hudson, a Panhard, a Mercedes Ponton, a Lancia Appia and a Tucker) are that they are saloons, they are vintage, they are solid looking and foursquare in appearance – but still very, very elegant vehicles.

Which current car, still in production, would represent the Scottie best do you think? Suggestions appreciated!

Foto: Montasje. Photo: Montage.

Monday, April 4, 2011

I have nothing to offer but BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS and SWEAT




























Akkurat hjemkommet fra Jönköping, og et utbytterikt skottesymposium der, i regi av den svenske raseklubben Skottefederationen. Jeg synes jeg sitter igjen med mye etter symposiet - framfor alt forelesningen om ”Avelshundens fertilitet, paring og valping” ved veterinær Anna-Carin af Klinteberg (Västra Djursjukhuset), gjensyn med gode venner og så har jeg dessuten gjort noen nye hyggelige bekjentskaper, som jeg setter jeg meget stor pris på.

Det er alltid hyggelig å lære noe nytt. I helgen har jeg blant annet lært hva gulkroppen er, eller ”det gule legemet” som det heter på norsk, i en tispes reproduksjonsorganer. Regner med at alle der ute vet hva det er!?

Sir Winston Churchill var en stor retoriker, som jeg beundrer. (Det er vel ofte slik at man beundrer folk som er begavede i andre felt enn hva man selv er). Victory, eller seier, var denne store mannens mål. Veien til en fremtidig seier visste han kom til å bli strabasiøs, for a si det mildt. I sangen «Rule, Britannia!» synger jo vi briter med stolthet: Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Lurer på om den godeste Churchill hadde nettopp dette som visjon for nasjonene, at de aldri noensinne skulle invaderes av nazistene? 

I skottefederationens RAS-dokument har man lagt ned et stort arbeid på å beskrive rasens historikk, analysere nåtid og å peke på utfordringer som rasen har som må arbeides med i fremtiden. Jeg sitter igjen med disse tankene: Er målene ”hårete” nok? Hvilken strategi har man for å nå målene? Hvor skal skotten være om fem år, eller ti år? Hvordan skal vi som elsker skotten få dette til? Og til sist: Om vi må i krig for rasen, vil skotten seire?


Foto: Montasje. Foto skotte: Kennelgarth Romeo