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Brace’s
BITS & PIECES
BIT S & PIEC ES
Lessons
from
Lockdown
by Andrew Brace
The current pandemic has certainly changed chance to catch up with like-minded friends at
our lives. Overnight so much of what we had the weekend. The upside of mass cancellation
taken for granted became a longed-for memory of dog shows was that people were looking at
as many of us got used to a life of relative their bank balances and realising how much
isolation. Social contact was outlawed for many money they were saving which, in many cases,
of us and our lifestyle changed as we got used saw a lot of exhibitors questioning whether
to online grocery shopping and telephone or not their hobby was giving them value for
consultations with doctors. money.
For many “dog people” life had to continue Lots of us have found out things about
pretty much as normal as their animals knew ourselves – many discovering that they had
nothing of Covid and still needed to be fed, unexploited talents. Personally l realised that
groomed and exercised. So many people began cake baking wasn’t quite as difficult as I had
working from home, either wholly or partially, expected. Much as I have always enjoyed
which gave them more time to spend with their cooking, and consider myself to be pretty good
families and pets, and more time to take care at it, I had never really explored the world of
of jobs that had previously been put on hold for baking but recently I have managed to turn out
tomorrow. the occasional lemon drizzle cake that has done
nothing for my Covid waistline!
Those who exhibit their dogs suddenly found
this social activity taken away from them. The During lockdown various platforms
more serious suffered lost opportunities, be it have launched interviews with well-known
for chasing that elusive third CC or final Junior personalities in the dog world which have
Warrant points, or for bringing out the latest proved most enlightening, these informal
exciting puppy for whom its breeder had high sessions giving us the chance to learn a lot
hopes. The less determined simply missed the more about the person behind the face. I have
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