It's been a long time since we did walk from the book
We had arranged to do the walk with our Welsh Terrier friends Roxy, Roger, Colin and Jenkins
Starting at
The Cock Inn
Hanwood, Shropshire
Photo taken by Jonathan Fraser
A rare photo of Mom trying to get over a stile!!
Good job they have dog sized holes at the bottom
This is where the walk all started to get a little Muddy!
Roxy and Roger checking out the smells
While the two leggers got deeper in it
That field was shocking to go through and I don't mean just the mud!!
We walked along the fence line to start with as it was the least muddy place but it had an electric fence next to the main fence, there were no signs to tell you this, two of the two leggers got shocks off it!!
It was at this stage of the walk we decided it was best to walk into the middle of the field, Mom also put the camera away as she was almost a gonner a couple of times with her wellies getting stuck!
We were walking to a stile at the far side of the field, but climbing over it Roxys Mom got an electric shock as she put her arm close to the wire by the stile!!again no signs to warn you.
Over to Mom for a rant!!
"I did think it was law to have signs up to say you are entering a field with an electric fence, on getting home I checked out the Shropshire Council website about Electric Fences and Public Rights of Way.
Turns out its a Guidance to Landowners not law to have signs up, but the electric fence is the landowners liability
Quote- In the event of a user of a right of way coming into contact with an un-insulated electric
fence and suffering harm as a result then the injured party could sue the person responsible for erecting the fence for damages.
Rant over back to George"
"I did think it was law to have signs up to say you are entering a field with an electric fence, on getting home I checked out the Shropshire Council website about Electric Fences and Public Rights of Way.
Turns out its a Guidance to Landowners not law to have signs up, but the electric fence is the landowners liability
Quote- In the event of a user of a right of way coming into contact with an un-insulated electric
fence and suffering harm as a result then the injured party could sue the person responsible for erecting the fence for damages.
Rant over back to George"
We took time out to see where the next part of the walk would take us, I was so pleased Jenkins was with us as he lives locally and pointed out that following the book we would have to go through more fields that would most likely be just as muddy.
He guilded us a less muddy way
This stile has a piece of wood you lift up so us dogs can get through.
This field was not muddy, can you see the snow on the hills?
Plenty to smell
Photo taken by Jonathan Fraser
A very rare photo of Mom and Dad!!
The stile out of the field
Time to wash some of the mud off.
This is Jenkin's
Thanks for your help redircting the walk and getting us away from the mud
I smell spring in the air
All cross
Photo taken by Jonathan Fraser
We all had to wait outside the local shop while Mom went in and got some bin linners to put on the seats of the car!
Oh look its a muck spreader coming!
Back to where we started.
Dogs where not allowed in this pub so we all had to sit outside
Bar humbug
We said goodbye to Jenkins at this point and waited while Roxy's Mom put some over trouser's on, as she fell over in the Muddy field!
We can tick that walk off in the book and can only hope that the next one won't be muddy.
I heard Mom and Dad talking that because we where so muddy it would be a good time to try out the drive in dog wash!!! But Roxy came to the rescue and invited me Tess and Colin to R&P's place for an off lead play time.
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A great end to a great day, with great friends, we didn't end up at the dog wash as most of the mud dropped off with all the running about.
Have a Good Week
See Yea George xxx
