CHATTERBOX AND CRAIGOWL WISH YOU ALL THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON....
Grateful thanks to Virginia. 20 years ago, when I was Editor of the CKCS Club magazine "Expressions", she kindly let me reproduce this piece that she wrote.
AND TOY
SPANIELS
IN ART
The Infants Don Alfonso Caro and Doaa Ana Margarita by Spanish artist Bartolomé González y Serrano (1564-1627)
Philadelphia and Elizabeth Warton by Sir Anthony Van Dyke (1599-1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England and is most famous for his portraits of Charles I and his family and court.
Girl with Spaniel & Young boy in white dress with blue bows holding Spaniel both painted by Ramsay Richard Renaigle 1775-1862 British
The Children of the Duc de Bouillon 1647 by Pierre Mignard
Young girl with a dog by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793 –1872) British
portrait of a girl with her dog...Pier Francesco Cittadini Italian (1616-1681)
Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli with 6 of her children (5 sons and her daughter Verginia). She died at in Sept. 1605 at 37, giving birth to her 19th child. By Italian Lavinia Fontana (August 24, 1552 – August 11, 1614)
Maria Anna of Spain with her son Ferdinand, 1634, unknown Austrian Artist
two daughters of King Philip II and his third wife, Elisabeth of Valois....Infantas Isabella Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela of Spain by Sofonisba Anguissola
The Irish Cavalier Club heldan Open show on 6th December where Linda Mills judged the classes and Dermot Alford judged the Puppy and Veteran of the Year event. GAIN Dog Food sponsored the show and is represented here by Sean Martin. Thank you to Kitty Conlon for the results and photographs from Kathleen Waters.
PUPPY OF THE YEAR..Rathbrist Whispering Hope
VETERAN OF THE YEAR..Ir Ch/ Int Ch. Chantismere Tinker Taylor at Menota
THE OPEN SHOW WINNERS
Best Baby Puppy..Rathbrist Moonage Daydream
Best Puppy..Janis Joplin Snukraina
Best Dog...Chlojade Celebration
Res Best Dog...Aimedahl Red Hero (handled by Fiona Hurley)
Best Bitch.. Chantismere Cosette
Res Best Bitch... Rathbrist Whispering Hope
Best Wholecolour... Aimedahl Red Hero handled by Fiona Hurley
Best in Show...Chantismere Cosette
Reserve Best in Show...Chlojade Celebration
Best Veteran...Ir.Ch./Int Ch. Chantismere Tinker Taylor at Menota at 12 yeas old.
The Club also declared the TOP IRISH CAVALIERS 2015based on points won.
Top Cavalier 2015.....Ir Ch Glencross De Ja Vu
Top Puppy 2015....Rathbrist Whispering Hope
op Stud 2015.....Ir.Ch./CKCS USA Ch. Nightingale Golden Ticket at Ardgrove
Top Brood 2015...Orinoco Tizzy Tazman
Top Wholecolour 2015...Brenhora Twist Again at Moorfields
not Chinese or even Japanese Whispers .... it's true.....RATHBRIST WHISPERING HOPE and Miyuki Kotani and Kitty Conlonfrom County Longford in Ireland had a great end to their year, making the long trip over to Wales by ferry and car to the South and West Wales CKCS Club showwell worth it. They won the CC under judge Howard Ogden and I guess they maye walked on water going back across the Irish Sea! well done, ladies.
CAVALIERS FOR LIFE
check out the new website.....http://www.cavaliersforlife.eu
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A
...that was especially true at the Cavalier Club Xmas show where Debbie Coole(Jolainey) was judging. Everyone was getting in the festive mood and the Committee, dressed in their Christmas accessories, put a smile on the faces. Of course, the mulled wine helped! The hall was decked, there was xmas tunes, hot home made food to tempt the appetite and Xmassy themed prizes for the lucky ones. These all added up to a splendid day of good humour and made us all forget for a while the horrid weather outside.Have never seen so many Christmas jumpers at a Cavalier show.
The main winners were
WANDRIS SONGBIRD...Best Bitch/Best in Show
CAVALIEGH ICE MAN JW...Best Dog
CRAIGOWL OUT OF TOUCH....Best Puppy
LEOGEM MUSETTA...Best Veteran
GARLOUCHI JUST MAGIC OF CHARNAVALE....Reserve Best Dog
COEDGWYLUM HOT TIP....Reserve Best Bitch
join us by enjoying some of the pics taken at the show...thanks to Dennis and Laura for a couple I snaffled...
Judge Debbie
Dennis Homes got bombed
Sue Leach
Lucy and Di Koster and Gay Lowe.....
Paula Stark and the fab raffle
Brian Townsend and Paula Stark ...playful President and ex President
Santa Vella..has a certain ring to it!
Tina Homes
Lucy Koster...smoochy Show Manager
Jenny Wightman, David Moger, Cassie Stanton
Julie Guvercin and Sandra Moger
Lorraine Crozier....Santa's racy Results Recorder
Gordon Inglis
Chairman Sheena Maclaine...sexy Santagram
beautiful rosettes and prizes all cleverly given the Xmas touch
Rachel Surman...Santa's special secretary
Elaine Williams, Julie Guvercin and Val Pack Davison
Veronica Hull....Santa's special Steward
Diana Koster
Hilda Brewer
Santa's little helpers
Sue Mangham and her daughter
Pam Lewis and her granddaughter
Tania Ireland and Michelle Chapman
Rosemary Eustace, Andy Vella and Sandra Moger
Elaine Berwick....Committee Head Chef
Rick Aldous....Committee Champion washer upper
Winner of the lush Hamper...Maryann Hogan
BEST DOG AND BEST BITCH
BEST PUPPY DOG AND BEST DOG
BEST DOG
BEST PUPPY IN SHOW
BEST VETERAN IN SHOW
Vice Chairman Annette Jones with Norma and BEST PUPPY BITCH
MUSIC TO THEIR EARS?
Bret Stetka is a writer from New York.
"In 2001 musician Peter Gabriel flew to Atlanta to make music with two apes. The jam went surprisingly well. At each session Gabriel, a known dabbler in experimental music and a founding member of the band Genesis, would riff with a small group of musicians. The Bonobos apes were trained to play in response on keyboards and showed a surprising, if rudimentary, awareness of melody and rhythm.
Since then Gabriel has been working with scientists to help better understand animal cognition, including musical perception. Plenty of related research has explored whether or not animals other than humans can recognize what we consider to be music – whether they can they find coherence in a series of sounds that could otherwise transmit as noise. Many do, to a degree. And it's not just apes that respond to song.
Parrots reportedly demonstrate some degree of "entrainment," or the syncing up of brainwave patterns with an external rhythm; dolphins may respond to Radiohead; and certain styles of music reportedly influence dog behaviour.
Wagner supposedly honed his operas based on the response of his Cavalier Spaniel above.The German operatic composer, Richard Wilhelm Wagner (1813-1883) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century music. Best known as the composer of the series of four operas that make up The Ring Cycle, he had a strong appreciation of the musical taste of dogs. He provided a special stool in his study for Peps, his Cavalier. As Wagner composed he would play the piano, or sing passages that he was working on. The composer kept his eyes on the dog and modified musical phrases based upon how the dog reacted. Wagner noticed that Peps responded differently to melodies depending upon their musical keys.
......that's all for now.....Norma
19th December 2015