Betty's lovely playtime, and feeling yuck

 Betty had a wonderful time at the dog exercise field yesterday (sorry no pictures, didn't even occur to me).  For the first time she actually went on a couple of the exercise/agility things - she particularly loved the tyre mountain.  It's a load of various sized tyres, from car to tractor sizes, all piled up and filled in with sand, once she realised it was sand she was all over it, as she loves playing in the sand on the beach.  She did exactly what she does on the beach - dug holes in the sand, threw herself down in them on her back and rolled around.  Filled my heart with joy to see her enjoying herself so much.  There are 2 tunnels, big tubes around 10 or 12 feet long - she won't go in them though, even with us throwing balls through them and calling her, she just runs around the side of them!  So funny.  She also spent 10 mins or so just running around with her nose to the ground, hoovering up all the smells from the previous dozens and dozens of dogs that have been there before.  She was zonked out fast asleep for an hour soon after we got home.  Because of all the rain we've had, the field was extremely muddy in places though, and will obviously get worse as even more rain is forecast.  I think the owners of the field will have to address that, perhaps bring in some grit or bark chips to cover the worst areas.

I think I'm coming down with something, it started last night with a fit of sneezing, followed by a headache, overwhelming tiredness and aching muscles, so I went to bed early.  I slept reasonably  well, but still feel under the weather this morning, in fact I feel pretty rotten.  Hopefully it's just a cold coming on and won't hang about.