About Us

My name is Claude and I was born and educated in France (Brittany) many years ago. However I have lived in various parts of the British Isles and for forty five years in the UK.

This website is about our hobbies and my two main ones are dogs and photography.

1st hobby dogs: We have two dogs (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Toller in short) which I am enjoying training for basic obedience, agility and gundog work (only using dummies).  With our previous Toller, sadly now in dog heaven, I did breed shows with him and I am pleased to say he qualified for "Cruft's" breed show and came first in his class on two occasions.

2nd hobby photography: I am a very keen photographer and will photograph anything and everything.  I love taken photos of dogs, my own dogs are quite used to have the camera pointed at them, furthermore they are perfect models.  On a more serious note I am a member of our local Camera Club and do enter some of my photographs to the monthly club competitions.

 

My name is Philip, and I am a native of Portsmouth (UK). From a very early age, I had a strong interest in electronics and digital computers, and this developed into a career for me. But my career is also one of my hobbies, and I still get much pleasure from computer programming.

 I am a keen photographer, but maybe more technical with the camera than artistic. On the other hand, Claude is very artistic with her camera so we learn a lot from each other.

I have a strong interest in early music, and I am the proud owner of a harpsichord on which I practice regularly. Other interests are general aviation, and I held a PPL for many years.