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| Diana Norman and Tim Mills welcome you to the TZANI website where we proudly show case our beautiful Griffons, both rough and smooth, but first to introduce ourselves .... ABOUT DIANA: Diana was born in Jersey, where the cows come from, and migrated to Australia for ten pounds in 1968. Landing in Sydney she lived for five years in Balmain working as a Occupational Therapist until, sick of the big city life, she moved to Mapleton in the Sunshine Coast hinterland where, in 1975, she began her very successful involvement in German Shorthaired Pointers under the prefix Edelhof. Although only a small kennel Edelhof GSPs have excelled in all fields of competition during the years since then. Diana's aim was to strive for the perfect GSP and to live up to the Edelhof motto "Beauty, Brains and Birdsence". Her last hurrah was the day Grand Ch Edelhof the Vespers won Best in Show at the GSP National in 2006. Although her passion continues to this day, for this breed Diana's life has now taken another direction and so she has handed over her prefix to her daughter Jade who also shares that passion. In 1996 Diana bought her first Griffon Bruxellois from Mollie Grocott of new Zealand, he was Ch Moerangi Dragonfly. Dragon was Diana's loyal friend and protector for the next ten years during which time Diana developed Amate Park Llama Stud and The Cria Cafe at Ocean View in the Brisbane hinterland. Diana lived at Amate Park with her two daughters, Zoe and Jade, where she cared for a herd of around forty long wool llamas, thirty head of cattle and of course the GSPs. At this time Jade joined her mother in partnership with Edelhof and took on responsibility for showing the GSPs as Diana was too busy to show dogs at this time she did continue her education as a trainee judge and qualified as a All Breeds judge in 2002. She has judged throughout Australia and New Zealand as well as overseas. In 2004, following treatment for brest cancer, Diana realised that she could no longer manage her 85 acre property alone and reluctantly she sold her beloved farm and moved to Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast. All but six of her favourite llamas were sold. The six went to join a friend's herd in Geelong where the focus was on producing true Suri Llamas. Soon after her move to the Sunshine Coast, Dragon, her little Griffon who had been in poor health for several years had to be put to sleep. He developed a scoliosis in his neck aged about two and there were intermittent periods during his life where he would go very quiet and seemed to be in pain. We now know that he had all the symptoms of Syringomyelia. Then along came daisy the Australian Silky Terrier, who was given to Diana by her very good friend James Camac, Balkana Australian Silky Terriers. James gave her the little dog "to cheer her up" and "to get her interested in showing dogs again." Daisy, Ch Balkana Opening Night, certainly did that and before long Diana was back in the show ring with her Silky. Then in March 2005 she met Tim Through the internet... as you do these days! ABOUT TIM: Tim Joined the Australian Defence Forces when only 15 as a Naval Junior Recruit and went on to complete 24 years military service. Returning to his native Hervey bay on discharge from the services, he worked as an interstate express, coach driver doing long distance tours and charters all around Australia. Moving to the Sunshine Coast in the mid 1990's Tim worked as a Senior housing Officer for the Queensland Department of Housing until he retired in 2006. He is pictured here dressed approciately for his position on his last day of work! Tim has been a lover of animals all his life, especially dogs and horses of which he has owned several over the years. He rode his horses in dressage, jumping and eventing competitions as well as in hack shows. His highly competitive nature also saw him playing representative rugby and competing in international ocean yacht racing. |
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