I should know better

Well, that`s Crufts over. Can`t really quarrel with the Best In Show - a very neat trim little whippet. But a lot of the big money was on the Tibetan Terrier, who, if my memory serves, rejoiced in the name of Fabulous Willy. Imagine what the tabloids would have made of that! A headline paradise. Let your mind run riot.
Crufts got the usual coverage on the Beeb. Any hobby which does not directly involve drink, home improvement, food or football is really a mystery to the producers and is accordingly made fun of. They`d really like to make it over as a children`s comedy programme, but it resists that, so they treat it as if it belongs on Cbeebies, and present it like that graveyard of young TV wannabes, live children`s programming, with young hyper mildly desperate presenters, obviously nervous of dogs, running about laughing wildly at nothing and wondering what all this will do for their careers. If they could have Ant and Dec doing it, they would. Real dog people seldom laugh. I wonder why........?