Bessie judges the show. By Bessie

So yesterday Mummy and Katie was helping at the basset hound show.  Them said they wasn't going to take any of us houndies cos we is a nuisance at these type of things and we is not supposed to be at the show anyway unless we is entered in the show.  But - just like the day Mummy went to visit Jefferson and she wasn't going to take me - she woke up and me was lay there snuggled up to her face and she thought I can't spend a whole day without my Bessie baby.  So me did go.  Lotty and Carly had to stay home cos Carly gets lairy and starts fights and Lotty would have eaten all the food in the kitchen and got a broom up the bum off Aunty Julie.  Plus she probably not even a basset really.  We thinks she a whippet with a bassets head glued on.

We did go to the show and Daddy drove us there and he come in and did all the manly jobs for Aunty Tina like setting the ring out.  Daddy is a champion show ring setter outer now.  Then Aunty Marion and Uncle Bernard come and they brought their 4 dogs and we all chatted and Aunty Marion said her dogs were all very nervy so me and Mummy sat on the floor and waited for them to come to us and them did come to us and let us cuddle and Aunty Marion was pleased that her dogs did let Mummy cuddle them.  Mummy say to Daddy after that she not know why Aunty Marion always has nervy dogs, her wonders if it not something Aunty Marion does with them that make them like that.  I say Mummy shouldn't gossip, it very unladylike.

Then Daddy did go back home to look after Carly and Lotty and Mummy did set out her stall.  Mummy always look after the breed standard stall.  We not know why it called that cos really it just basset crap what they sell.  But someone did forget most of the boxes so there was only a teeny bit of basset crap this time and Mummy only made £5.25 off her stall all day.  Daddy probably happy there was not much stuff cos Mummy didn't buy any more stuff to put in her basset crap cupboard.  Mummy put the cage and my cushion under the table so me could sit in it and have a sleep but me far too busy snoopervising to sleep.

Katie and Kristen played hide and seek.  Kristen is Aunty Tina's graddaughter.  Her is 5, she likes to play with me and we do always have cuddles.  Me not allowed to play hide and seek cos Katie say I always stand next to her hiding place and bark and that cheating.

At this point me did originally write a big paragraph about what happened when I decided I wanted to be in the show and stood in the ring during judging but Mummy made me remove it cos she said if certain people did read it then they would know me was being rude about them and they would complain to the prime minister.  Mummy I don't know who you think reads this at all.

Anyway me did like going to the show.  Me not into all that showing stuff, it looks too much like hard work but me does like being Mummy's assistant and me likes all the peoples from our basset club, them is all very nice and lovely and does deserve to be called my aunties and uncles.

Then the show was over and Daddy did come to help clean up and me did run over to my Daddy for a cuddle and him did give me a huge big cuddle.  Then we tidied up and went home and Daddy made us our tea and him made the humans tea and Katie was rude about the tea what Daddy made and everybody did tell her off.

Then we watched Countryfile and them went to the farmers market in Abergavenny and them said they was knocking it down and building them a lovely new one outside town and all the people was moaning and saying them wanted the old one to stay.  Me say they are being silly and ungrateful.  Firstly the town centre is no place for farm animals and secondly, them is farmers.  Their farms is not in the town centre so it not like they had all walked to the market so it not really matter where they have their market.  Anyway it none of my business, me only went to Abergavenny once so me not really care if peoples want to march down Queen Street with a herd of cattle.

Then we watched X Factor results (which made us cross and we didn't blame Gary Barlow for stomping off, we would have stomped off too.  That Louis Walsh needs a good slapping if you ask me).  And we watched Downton Abbey but me not allowed to tell you what happened cos me did promise my Americaland friends me would not give the story away.