Issues Road, Holme

We had unwelcome visitors on Boxing Day, enough to curtail hound exercise for reasons of safety and sense. Seeing as how it was due to be on some of the best beagling country ever I was only too happy when the farmers and keeper enthusiastically allowed us to rearrange the meet for the following Saturday....

 The View Across to Emley Moor Mast

 Hardly needs saying...but...A hare...

A very good day was had by all, and what a field, over 40 regulars & newcomers braved the elements to watch some excellent hound-work.


Happy New Year one & all!

A New Season Begins

7.00 am on the side of the hill over looking Diggle, in fact over looking several of the Saddleworth villages, the 2013-14 season began, or at least the first of the early morning pre-season meets did, which is more or less the same thing...

A bit damp to begin with, and breezy, but after a lot of rain the day and night before it seemed as if there was plenty of scent around.

 A bit of a "noisy" picture, but it was only just after 7 am and the sun hadn't really got up so the light was appalling, still, with a bit of fiddling about in "Lightroom" these are passable, at least I think they are....

 This hare happened to pass me by close enough to get a few shots off, given how poor the light was at the time I am quite pleased how these turned out....

And especially this one...

 The ladies keeping an eye on things...

 A distant whip..

Time for home........

A cracking start to the season, it has been a very long summer after all.....

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September

As I say in the YT preamble, this is one of those songs that I have (hopefully) grown up with. In spite of the potential copyright issue I decided to clamp a load of clips together, of course it didn't take many seeing as how it's only a minute and a half long, and use them as a setting for the experience.

UK Autumn? Bring it on.

Walking Out Saturday 13th April. Charlie Boy's Birthday....

The snow has pretty much all gone, at least, though some lingers on the very tops, and the bigger drifts in the lanes haven't quite melted as yet....

What a motley crew....

CVB Holme Moss 23/2/13

Two minutes and fifty second of beagling on some very exposed & flipping cold ground.

Last Saturday, 23rd February 2013.

Location: Holme Moss, The border between West Yorkshire & Derbyshire.

Time: 9.00AM

Temperature: -11°C

Bloody cold.

 This is clearly not beagling.

 This, in spite of the absence of beagles in the photo, is.

This is Charlie.

The low cloud, and perishing cold, with a strong draught, kept us from turning out on time, and for an hour and a half it was touch and go as to whether or not we would get out at all.

In the revamped Blog this is the first time I've mentioned what is one of my favourite pastimes, namely tramping around the hills and moors watching and (formerly) hunting a pack of beagles, the Colne Valley Beagles in fact. In the Picasa album to the right hand side of this page there will be a good few pictures from the old Blog relating to the subject.....

It will get mentioned again.

(I realised after posting the video that I'd already done a post on this particular day, so have edited them together...)