✏ AIRMAN’S GRAVE WALK ☆ ‘THE HOLLIES’ Car Park, Ashdown Forest:
18th April 2010 ☆ Jean Miller ✍
It was more like a summer’s day when Tony kindly
collected me, Annie
and Cass.
Although we were early
getting to the car park, there were already quite a few cars complete with families
and Basset Hounds.
It was lovely to see so
many members arriving until we had a very happy band awaiting the ‘off’,
When we counted, we had twenty nine hounds - one short of our hoped for
target. We would
particularly like to thank members for supporting our walks, especially
after making long journeys.
It was a pleasure to be in the forest on such
a beautiful day - the hounds
all raced around enjoying the freedom and then, suddenly, found the
water. Before we could stop them, quite a few were in, having a wonderful time.
They then proceeded to
find some lovely mud patches and afterwards many looked as though they had
been issued with brown boots.
As it hadn’t rained much
recently I decided not to wear my wellies, but instead had on a pair of heavy slip-on
shoes. What a mistake! We came to one part of the walk which was
just a sheet of boggy mud
Although we were early
getting to the car park, there were already quite a few cars complete with families
and Basset Hounds.
It was lovely to see so
many members arriving until we had a very happy band awaiting the ‘off’,
When we counted, we had twenty nine hounds - one short of our hoped for
target. We would
particularly like to thank members for supporting our walks, especially
after making long journeys.
It was a pleasure to be in the forest on such
a beautiful day - the hounds
all raced around enjoying the freedom and then, suddenly, found the
water. Before we could stop them, quite a few were in, having a wonderful time.
They then proceeded to
find some lovely mud patches and afterwards many looked as though they had
been issued with brown boots.
As it hadn’t rained much
recently I decided not to wear my wellies, but instead had on a pair of heavy slip-on
shoes. What a mistake! We came to one part of the walk which was
just a sheet of boggy mud
.
Miranda and Frankie who
took one arm each and escorted me through all this. Surprisingly, when
they dried off they didn’t look too bad. (Ed. I think that Jean is
referring to her shoes - as although Frankie was pretty filthy - though
she does clean up well!)
Everyone seemed to agree that it was an ideal day to have such a walk and
left with promises to try and attend future walks.
