We set off down the road towards Grove but soon turned off onto the footpath to West Hanney.  The wind was blowing but it was behind us.  No-one could decide if it were better to continue straight on being blown along or turn around and head into the wind, but back towards the pub.  It was a VERY long stretch so there was a re-group at the edge of the village.  Epic Fail, who was running with a rucksack on his back, was moaning about the wait so we sent him off to run back to the main group.  The rest of us hid behind a farm trailer to keep out of the wind and Gnome Alone hatched a plot.  It rather relied on the younger ladies in the group taking Epic’s attention but, when he got back, they all set off checking and left Lemony and Tinkerbell to hel with the plot.  While Lemony engaged him on conversation Gnome put a very large rock into his rucksack.  He had trouble zipping it back up so Tinkerbell quickly suggested that we had noticed that his back was undone so Gnome was just doing it up.  This freeked him out a bit as he had packed the bag with items from the car includgn a first aid kit and was worried that he might have dropped something.  Once calmed

On On

Hares:  Ringer and Dingaling

Hounds: Hotlips, Big Stiffy, Wimpey, Lemony Snickett, Buzz, Henry V, A Cruel Joke, Baby Slapper, Tank Slapper, Hutch, Rubber Sole, Rubber Sole’s Buddy, Northern Soul, Zorro, CS, Gnome Alone, Epic, Penny Pitstop, Miss Whiplash, Tinkerbell, Twitcher, Gatecrasher, Hailey and Scott

Date: 15 November 2015

Distance:  c5.5 Miles