Hi everyone, sorry I've not been around for some time. It's all just been too much... and I didn't want to talk about my sadness. Just writing this now is making me start crying again. I really feel like I've been through an emotional wringer; first Poppy and then my mum.
I say good night to Poppy every evening, and I put a candle in a lantern on her grave, which we can then see from our living room window.
Anyway, here are some photos of my stunning, amazing girl as I like to remember her, back in her prime. She was an astonishing retriever - retrieving was her life. We took part in so many competitions together, and won quite a few too! She was so good - even my mistakes as a handler couldn't stop her. I just had to point her and she knew instinctively what to do.
Goodbye Poppy. You were my beautiful princess, and you are so much loved and missed.

