ROCKWOOD
HARRIERS from Langsett - 7th December 2017
One of the better days for weather.
One of the better days for weather.
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Come
on get on with it!
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Getting
on with it – unloading.C
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Bit of a rest.
Huntsman on the phone and one elegant lady draining her hip flask.
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Activity
at last!
Actually it was the attraction
of my lunch in my pocket. On the way to the meet I
had called at Brindon Addy’s ( LINK ) the award winning butcher at Hade Edge, to buy
a sausage roll. But I got carried away when a wagon driver in front of me bought a
hot sausage, fried egg and fried mushroom sandwich in a teacake. (A teacake, not being universally understood,
is a large circular soft bread bun). As
a consequence I ordered the same and was
nursing its delicious warmth in my coat pocket, a fact not lost on the hounds.
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Clambering over a wall with a barbed wire fence
along it I descended into a patch of aggressive brambles and was completely ensnared
while trying to take this photo.
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A couple of donkeys pictured in passing. Some friends have just taken delivery of two
donkeys to add to their flock of White Faced Woodland sheep and hens. They came from the Donkey Sanctuary. LINK It seems a bit fashionable to have a couple
of donkeys, or llamas or other exotica. But donkeys do have a rather lovable appearance and to have one of those little old Irish donkey carts as well would be good fun.
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Bit of a jam as the huntsman and hounds got to the
end of the walled lane to find a locked gate, so everyone had to about face and he was
left stuck at the back. I think the waterboard of the time must have built the walls as they built some very solid high walls that stand well today.
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An old building presumably once a cottage at Langsett,
passed on the way home.
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ROCKWOOD
HARRIERS from Bolsterstone - 14th December 2016
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Going to the Meet
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The Meet
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A foxhound at the back. I met a young gamekeeper last week, while I was trying to follow the Rockwood, who didn’t
know what harriers were. Odd. He never got to see them either as I had lost them
and he went home.
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Moving off from the Meet.
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Why
many go I think, other than the social occasion.
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Always a lot of standing about. But which way should we look?
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An artist cum photographer was out on foot. She had a camera to die for. Canon 5D, later model, and a Canon 70-200mm
lens. One of those low light white professional
ones that mark the really serious photographer.
She is an equine artist – LINK
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There was a haze
that never went.
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The end of my day of plodding, but the countryside
is delightful despite being alongside industrial Stocksbridge and near Sheffield.
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