Fitzroy, my Beagle Pup is named after the great Captain of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Darwin to the Galapagos Islands, I’d toyed with calling him Darwin but these days I don’t feel evolution dealt me a fair hand. Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy also founded the Meteorological Office and created what is now known as the Shipping Forecast. There is a sea area named after him there is Fitzroy Sound in the Falkland Islands, known by name to all army medics of my generation for the Treatment Station set up in the shearing sheds there in the Falklands war of 1982, its where I lost my first friend in the army too. My Beagle has a name to live up to and it’s high time he got his paws wet! Fitzroy is only 15wks old but its important to get a dog at this stage of development comfy with activities you’d like to together through out your lives. Suitably named The...