/community/lounge/Recent content in Member's Lounge on North of England Lhasa Apso ClubHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gb© 2026Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:58:00 +0100/community/lounge/2026-04-18-muffin-hits-the-small-screen-our-very-own-coronation-street-star/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:58:00 +0100/community/lounge/2026-04-18-muffin-hits-the-small-screen-our-very-own-coronation-street-star/<p>Move over, Hollywood&hellip; we have a star in our own midst!</p> <p>We are thrilled to share that one of our very own, the lovely Muffin, made her television debut on the iconic cobbles of <strong>Coronation Street</strong> last year.</p> <p>The opportunity arose through a close friend who coordinates the animal actors for the show. When the production team reached out looking for a &ldquo;well-behaved, fluffy dog&rdquo; for a specific scene, Muffin was put forward as the perfect candidate. After a successful trial at ringcraft to ensure she was camera-ready, she was officially selected for her role.</p>/community/lounge/2025-04-10-the-royal-lhasa-apso-household-gazette/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:57:00 +0100/community/lounge/2025-04-10-the-royal-lhasa-apso-household-gazette/<blockquote><p>“We’re not pet owners. We’re staff.”</p> </blockquote><p>Dear valued members of the household,</p> <p>A warm welcome (from a safe distance) to our newest resident overlord: <strong>Chewy</strong>, a 10‑month‑old Lhasa Apso - also known in official circles as “the bearded lion dog” .</p> <div class="admonition relative overflow-hidden rounded-lg border-l-4 my-3 px-4 py-3 shadow-sm" data-type="danger"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 font-semibold text-inherit"> <div class="flex shrink-0 h-5 w-5 items-center justify-center text-lg"><span class="relative block icon"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512"> <path fill="currentColor" d="M159.3 5.4c7.8-7.3 19.9-7.2 27.7 .1c27.6 25.9 53.5 53.8 77.7 84c11-14.4 23.5-30.1 37-42.9c7.9-7.4 20.1-7.4 28 .1c34.6 33 63.9 76.6 84.5 118c20.3 40.8 33.8 82.5 33.8 111.9C448 404.2 348.2 512 224 512C98.4 512 0 404.1 0 276.5c0-38.4 17.8-85.3 45.4-131.7C73.3 97.7 112.7 48.6 159.3 5.4zM225.7 416c25.3 0 47.7-7 68.8-21c42.1-29.4 53.4-88.2 28.1-134.4c-2.8-5.6-5.6-11.2-9.8-16.8l-50.6 58.8s-81.4-103.6-87.1-110.6C133.1 243.8 112 273.2 112 306.8C112 375.4 162.6 416 225.7 416z"/></svg></span></div> <div class="grow"> Beware </div> </div><div class="admonition-content mt-3 text-base leading-relaxed text-inherit"><p>Previous experience with Beagles, crossbreeds, and a Coton de Tulear does not qualify anyone for service in this particular royal court.</p>/community/lounge/2025-01-01-congratulations/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2025-01-01-congratulations/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2025 </span> </span> <figure class="border border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 rounded-lg overflow-hidden shadow-sm not-prose" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0.25rem; max-width: 280px; width: 100%;"> <div class="pswp-gallery scrapbook-photo-frame" id="cloudinary-single-1"> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2025-congratulations-01_mxrsvk.jpg" data-pswp-width="824" data-pswp-height="572" target="_blank" class="block overflow-hidden transition-all duration-300 hover:scale-[1.01]"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2025-congratulations-01_mxrsvk.jpg" alt="Celebrating show success" loading="lazy" class="w-full h-auto object-cover"> </a> </div> <figcaption class="px-3 py-2 bg-neutral-50 dark:bg-neutral-800 text-xs text-center italic text-neutral-600 dark:text-neutral-400 border-t border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 leading-tight"> Celebrating show success </figcaption> </figure> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.css"> <script type="module"> import PhotoSwipeLightbox from 'https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe-lightbox.esm.js'; const lightbox = new PhotoSwipeLightbox({ gallery: '#cloudinary-single-1', children: 'a', pswpModule: () => import('https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.esm.js') }); lightbox.init(); </script> <p>To all our club members who have made up a Champion in 2024 and early 2025:</p>/community/lounge/2023-01-01-my-trip-to-the-kennel-club/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2023-01-01-my-trip-to-the-kennel-club/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2023 </span> </span> <figure class="border border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 rounded-lg overflow-hidden shadow-sm not-prose" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0.25rem; max-width: 280px; width: 100%;"> <div class="pswp-gallery scrapbook-photo-frame" id="cloudinary-single-1"> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2023-my-trip-to-the-kennel-club-01_lmg7bp.jpg" data-pswp-width="451" data-pswp-height="431" target="_blank" class="block overflow-hidden transition-all duration-300 hover:scale-[1.01]"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2023-my-trip-to-the-kennel-club-01_lmg7bp.jpg" alt="Guided tour at the Kennel Club" loading="lazy" class="w-full h-auto object-cover"> </a> </div> <figcaption class="px-3 py-2 bg-neutral-50 dark:bg-neutral-800 text-xs text-center italic text-neutral-600 dark:text-neutral-400 border-t border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 leading-tight"> Guided tour at the Kennel Club </figcaption> </figure> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.css"> <script type="module"> import PhotoSwipeLightbox from 'https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe-lightbox.esm.js'; const lightbox = new PhotoSwipeLightbox({ gallery: '#cloudinary-single-1', children: 'a', pswpModule: () => import('https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.esm.js') }); lightbox.init(); </script> <p>On Monday the 20th February I was up at the crack ‘o dawn waiting with my suitcase for my friend to arrive and knock on the door.</p>/community/lounge/2023-01-01-remembering-ian-ogden-husband-of-pam-a-longstanding-member-o/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2023-01-01-remembering-ian-ogden-husband-of-pam-a-longstanding-member-o/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> <span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2023 </span> </span> </span> </span> <figure class="border border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 rounded-lg overflow-hidden shadow-sm not-prose" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0.25rem; max-width: 280px; width: 100%;"> <div class="pswp-gallery scrapbook-photo-frame" id="cloudinary-single-1"> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2023-remembering-ian-ogden-husband-of-pam-a-longstanding-member-of-noelac-01_lplys1.jpg" data-pswp-width="557" data-pswp-height="634" target="_blank" class="block overflow-hidden transition-all duration-300 hover:scale-[1.01]"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2023-remembering-ian-ogden-husband-of-pam-a-longstanding-member-of-noelac-01_lplys1.jpg" alt="Ian Ogden" loading="lazy" class="w-full h-auto object-cover"> </a> </div> <figcaption class="px-3 py-2 bg-neutral-50 dark:bg-neutral-800 text-xs text-center italic text-neutral-600 dark:text-neutral-400 border-t border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 leading-tight"> Ian Ogden </figcaption> </figure> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.css"> <script type="module"> import PhotoSwipeLightbox from 'https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe-lightbox.esm.js'; const lightbox = new PhotoSwipeLightbox({ gallery: '#cloudinary-single-1', children: 'a', pswpModule: () => import('https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.esm.js') }); lightbox.init(); </script> <p>I would like to send this tribute of the life of Mr Ian Ogden, husband of Pamela Ogden and of the kennel Absosengkye Lhasa Apsos.</p>/community/lounge/2021-11-01-goldie-to-music/Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2021-11-01-goldie-to-music/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2021 </span> </span> <p><strong>The Beginning - Goldie</strong></p> <figure class="border border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 rounded-lg overflow-hidden shadow-sm not-prose" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0.25rem; max-width: 280px; width: 100%;"> <div class="pswp-gallery scrapbook-photo-frame" id="cloudinary-single-1"> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2021-goldie-to-music-01_vqeo5z.jpg" data-pswp-width="770" data-pswp-height="673" target="_blank" class="block overflow-hidden transition-all duration-300 hover:scale-[1.01]"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2021-goldie-to-music-01_vqeo5z.jpg" alt="Goldie and Me" loading="lazy" class="w-full h-auto object-cover"> </a> </div> <figcaption class="px-3 py-2 bg-neutral-50 dark:bg-neutral-800 text-xs text-center italic text-neutral-600 dark:text-neutral-400 border-t border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 leading-tight"> Goldie and Me </figcaption> </figure> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.css"> <script type="module"> import PhotoSwipeLightbox from 'https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe-lightbox.esm.js'; const lightbox = new PhotoSwipeLightbox({ gallery: '#cloudinary-single-1', children: 'a', pswpModule: () => import('https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.esm.js') }); lightbox.init(); </script> <p>My dad was chief architect to the King of Bhutan in 1970s and he says that my best mate whom I knew as Goldie was a gift from a monk who was very happy and grateful for some advice from my father. My dad, alone in Bhutan at the time was not sure how he could take care of the little puppy he now had and yet fully in love with him, decided to take it to his mum and dad who lived in a small town of India called Roorkee.</p>/community/lounge/2020-12-01-a-very-merry-christmasto-everyoneand-a-happy-new-year/Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2020-12-01-a-very-merry-christmasto-everyoneand-a-happy-new-year/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2020 </span> </span> <p>This year has been a bad year for everybody. I don’t know what is going to happen. The world has gone mad! I have never had so many phone calls, messages, texts and e mails from people looking for a Lhasa Apso. Perhaps it is the fact that people are stuck at home and need something to occupy their time. They think a dog might help. </p>/community/lounge/2020-12-01-christine-hamilton/Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2020-12-01-christine-hamilton/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2020 </span> </span> <p>Christine Hamilton sadly passed away in June this year, after a long illness. Christine had been a member of the North of England Lhasa Apso Club for many years, having come into the breed in 1992. At that time, Christine showed Gemma, a pet Lhasa which she had bred.</p> <p>She decided she liked showing so bought a promising show puppy from Tina Lewis (Ragoosa) and from there on she carried on attending shows and did some more breeding.</p>/community/lounge/2020-12-01-clovers-story/Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2020-12-01-clovers-story/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2020 </span> </span> <figure class="border border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 rounded-lg overflow-hidden shadow-sm not-prose" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0.25rem; max-width: 280px; width: 100%;"> <div class="pswp-gallery scrapbook-photo-frame" id="cloudinary-single-1"> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2020-clovers-story-01_f4xczq.jpg" data-pswp-width="489" data-pswp-height="572" target="_blank" class="block overflow-hidden transition-all duration-300 hover:scale-[1.01]"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/di1qnuy5r/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/newsletter-2020-clovers-story-01_f4xczq.jpg" alt="Clover the Lhasa Apso" loading="lazy" class="w-full h-auto object-cover"> </a> </div> <figcaption class="px-3 py-2 bg-neutral-50 dark:bg-neutral-800 text-xs text-center italic text-neutral-600 dark:text-neutral-400 border-t border-neutral-200 dark:border-neutral-700 leading-tight"> Clover the Lhasa Apso </figcaption> </figure> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.css"> <script type="module"> import PhotoSwipeLightbox from 'https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe-lightbox.esm.js'; const lightbox = new PhotoSwipeLightbox({ gallery: '#cloudinary-single-1', children: 'a', pswpModule: () => import('https://unpkg.com/photoswipe@5.4.2/dist/photoswipe.esm.js') }); lightbox.init(); </script> <p>Clover is a typical Lhasa Apso, stubbornly refusing to do the things that she doesn’t want to do such as going for a walk in the rain, wearing her raincoat, coming in from the garden when she’s busy digging in theflowerbed! Last weekend she was the only dog at training class to refuse to walk on cue! She is in a class with mostly younger pups, all of whom are happy to get on with it, but Clover knows her own mind… she followed the trainer when she brought out the sausage but then stopped each time she had eaten it!! In the end even the trainer had to give up!!!</p>/community/lounge/2020-12-01-noelac-rescue-rehoming/Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2020-12-01-noelac-rescue-rehoming/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2020 </span> </span> <p>This year has been a bad year for everybody. I don’t know what is going to happen. The world has gone mad! I have never had so many phone calls, messages, texts and e mails from people looking for a Lhasa Apso. Perhaps it is the fact that people are stuck at home and need something to occupy their time. They think a dog might help. </p>/community/lounge/2020-12-01-what-a-strange-year/Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000/community/lounge/2020-12-01-what-a-strange-year/<span class="flex cursor-pointer"> <span class="rounded-md border border-primary-400 px-1 py-[1px] text-xs font-normal text-primary-700 dark:border-primary-600 dark:text-primary-400"> Newsletter 2020 </span> </span> <p>Hopefully, next year we will be able to get back into the ring and even more importantly meet up with our friends.</p> <p>As a dog groomer as well as showing I have tried hundreds of different products from cheap to mega expensive. Sadly, I have not found one shampoo that suits all. In my experience mixing Shampoo’s, conditioners, conditioning sprays from different brands works the best.</p>