News on Llewellyn Setter

2008-09-01 These decoys are the real thing - The Connecticut Post Online

Although carving tools and techniques have improved considerably in recent years, allowing contemporary carvers to create wooden birds that are more lifelike, it is also the history of the antiques that makes them so valuable, collectors like Lovell say. Wheeler was "quite a character," Lovell said, having raised Llewellyn setters, becoming an onion farmer, an oysterman, a prize fighter, a baseball player, and one of the first environmentalists in the 1920s when it was very unpopular and he used his role as a state senator to affect environmental legislation.

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2008-07-23 Hannah and Leyla triumph on tie-break - Coventry Telegraph

Eastbourne: Inter-County Grass Court Championships Group 1 - Womens event: Warwickshire bt S. Wales 7-2 (Warwickshire names first)H. Grady/ L. Ogan, bt E. Jones/R. Llewellyn -7 (3) 7-6 (2), bt S. Loosemore and O. Scarfi -2, bt C. Halloran/ F. Lewis -2. L. Latimer/L. Cowper bt E. Jones/ R. Llewellyn , bt S. Loosemore/ O. Scarfi , bt C. Halloran/ F. Lewis -1. K. Shaw/ Aimee Jarrett lost to E. Jones/R. Llewellyn -6, lost to S. Loosemore/ O. Scarfi , bt C. Halloran/ F. Lewis -1.

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COVENTRYS Hannah Grady and Leyla Ogan, the Warwickshire first pair lived dangerously as they steered the county to a crushing 7-2 victory over South Wales on Day one of the Inter-County Championship Group One at Eastbourne. - Other sport sports in Coventry sports in the Midlands Coventry Crusaders Basketball Coventry Jets

2008-07-14 Collectors have their ducks in a row - The Connecticut Post Online

He used to play cards every Saturday night in my dads building in Stratford center, the Lovell building. Shang was quite a man. He raised Llewellyn setters, he was an onion farmer, he was an oysterman, a prize fighter, a baseball player. He was just an amazing man," Lovell said.

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2008-06-27 Mountain blueberries a delicious surprise Culpeper Star-Exponent

Feather, the Llewellyn setter, an insatiable hunter never had a lick of training but if her eyes were open, she was hunting. We called her the frog dog and I will tell you why. Feather would spend hours hunting frogs in the pond. Now, those of you who grew up anywhere near a pond will know that frogs sit on the edge until someone or something comes along. Then, as if strategically positioned on a springboard, with a grand leap and a little plunk, they escape to the murky depths of safety. But this savvy little setter had it figured out.

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2008-06-24 Jane has given us a stunning legacy - Yorkshire Post

One 20-strong group of runners, most of them from Leeds, ran the race in T-shirts featuring a photo of Maureen Llewellyn, a teacher who died of cancer in April.

She said: "I couldnt have done it without my daughter Janet (Miller). Shes come up from Devon with her husband. She was my pace-setter.

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Jane has given us a stunning legacy - IT was, said Mike Tomlinson, simply a stunning legacy. Eleven thousand runners closed down Leeds city centre on an emotional and poignant day for the Tomlinson family and anyone who has followed their story. - Jane Tomlinson cerebral palsy amputated amputee Bayston Beaton beer-swilling chain-smokers clown comradeship