✏ GILL’S LAP ☆ Ashdown Forest:
25th January 2009 ☆ Jean Miller ✍
Normally, we do not have
a walk in January; but on talking to members late last year, it was
generally agreed that with Christmas over and January being a flat month
it would cheer everyone up to have a walk with the pack in
January.
We awoke to foul
weather. It was so bad;
Annie - who usually loves her walks - took one look and point blank refused to go. In fact, she went straight
back on her bed. We don’t like leaving her for long, but decided we would
take Cass, see if anyone had braved the weather, and if not, and get back home in the warm.
After we arrived, quite
a collection of cars parked up, all with members and hounds.
In all (we couldn’t quite believe it) there were seventeen hounds and
their owners.
We started off, still
the rain poured down and the wind blew, but nothing deterred
our hardy group. The Bassets loved it - they didn’t get too muddy - but
had a great time getting so wet that they were actually running through
quite deep streams of water.
Needless to say, owners
were almost as wet, but on getting back to the car park everyone agreed it
was a most enjoyable walk. Well done to all who attended in the most
dreadful conditions.
Normally, we do not have
a walk in January; but on talking to members late last year, it was
generally agreed that with Christmas over and January being a flat month
it would cheer everyone up to have a walk with the pack in
January.
We awoke to foul
weather. It was so bad;
Annie - who usually loves her walks - took one look and point blank refused to go. In fact, she went straight
back on her bed. We don’t like leaving her for long, but decided we would
take Cass, see if anyone had braved the weather, and if not, and get back home in the warm.
After we arrived, quite
a collection of cars parked up, all with members and hounds.
In all (we couldn’t quite believe it) there were seventeen hounds and
their owners.
We started off, still
the rain poured down and the wind blew, but nothing deterred
our hardy group. The Bassets loved it - they didn’t get too muddy - but
had a great time getting so wet that they were actually running through
quite deep streams of water.
Needless to say, owners
were almost as wet, but on getting back to the car park everyone agreed it
was a most enjoyable walk. Well done to all who attended in the most
dreadful conditions.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
After this very wet, but wonderful, walk, I had the pleasure of presenting
Trudy Allen (and Mollie!) with the
WINNIE’S WHEELBARROW TROPHY.
This was awarded to the best contribution sent in to
LOWDOWN in
2008. Trudy won this for her accounts of chance encounters on a Cornish
beach (
see winter issue 2008/9, page 18). With innate journalistic
sensibilities she had also used her mobile phone to take photographs. Well
done, Trudy.
Engraved by
Kara
Slater, the glass award depicts a Basset Hound in a wheelbarrow -
what
else! It also has on it the winner’s name and is retained for a year.
