The Vale of Lune Harriers and The Three Counties Bloodhounds

The Fenwick Arms, Claughton - Wednesday 28th November, 11.30am

A late change of venue from the card.

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Friday 23rd November 2007

CLANG-PIP. CLANG-Pip.

The craked tones of the old skool bell summon various oiks, cads, swots, cissies, wets, wedes and bounders to assembl at the Longlands Hotel, Tewitfield for the Hunt Cultur and Temperance Soceity skool dinner.

Here at skool we are proud of our maners and once assembled for dinner whole skool erupt like an H bomb in an explosion of pea shooters and water pistols. We are much shoked i do not think.

Acktually once the master have said grace all boys descend on the skool sossages with mighty roar and within minits all is swept bare. Do not bolt yore food boys! All the older boys drink BEER which make them all very sprightly and matron must confiscate their bungees, pea shooters, catapults and water pistols yar boo sucks.

When the repast is finished the headmaster bawl Silence at the top of his voice and the whole skool fall silent. He holds up his glass and sa in a low voice

The QUEEN. Cheers cheers cheers for the queen we all drink and hurra for england. Naughty boys now sneke out past matron for a smoke. It will stunt their growth do they not kno?

It is time for the auction. Boys root thruough pockets amongst fluff, cigs, hankies and wine gums for any loose change wot have not already been spent on BEER. Headmaster call whitfield 1 to the front who do the honors and condukt affairs. Their are minor scuffles over some of the lots which push the price up nicely. It is amazing wot wine gums will buy these days.

Once the auction is over the whole sordid affair end up in a fug of even more BEER and drunken singing. Wot the boys will feel like in the morning is more than i can imagine.

But Seriously

The dinner was a roaring success and very entertaining.

A very BIG THANK YOU to the Longlands Hotel, Tewitfield who very kindly hosted the very successful VLH Gentleman’s School Dinner. The Longlands proprietors provided ALL the room and food completely FREE of charge

The VLH would particularly like to thank:

• the proprietors of the Longlands, Barry and Fiona, and all their friendly staff who were absolutely superb. The stern Headmistress and her naughty school girl waitresses all entered into the spirit of the evening and made it a most enjoyable evening.
• Mr & Mrs Kelly
• Mr Frank Towers
• Mr John Ronson
• Mr Clive Richardson
• Mr & Mrs Bowring
• Mr Ian Whittaker
• Mr Roger McPhail
• Hy-Fly Game Hatcheries
• Mr David Dobson & Bank House Fishery

A donation of the nights proceeds will be made to the North West Air Ambulance.

Whoop Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale - Saturday 24th November, 11.30am

In a change to the published fixtures there is a change of venue on Saturday. We will be meeting at Whoop Hall, near Kirkby Lonsdale, just off the A65 heading towards Skipton.

Meet CANCELLED due to weather.

Please use the VLH Hunt Country Map, which highlights the meets with an M, to help you find your way to the meets.

The Plough Inn, Lupton - Wednesday 21st November, 11.30am

Kennels - Saturday 17th November, 11.30am

Field Master Mr Alex Pimbley tackles one of the Hunt hedges.

The change of venue to kennels provided an excellent meet, before the field washed themselves clean in the River Lune. Our photographer tried carrying his camera with him on horseback for a unique perspective of the Hunt, and has his photos are now in the gallery.

Our thanks go to The Richardsons for hosting the meet and all the farmers who let us cross their country.

New Hunt Quad

The Hunt is very grateful to Mr Tony Dowdall, a keen hunt follower, for providing the hunt with a new quad to assist with essential works such as fence building and repairing and following the field on Hunt days.

Handing Over The Keys

The keys to the quad were officially handed over By Mr Dowdall to the Hunt at the Bridge Inn Meet on Saturday 10th November, and it was put straight into use laying the trail. As you can see it’s already very popular with the hounds.

Hounds

The Lunesdale Arms, for Tunstall - Wednesday 14th November, 11.30am

Field Master Ms Viki Sutton tackles one of the Hunt pallisades

Many thanks for the photo to Mr Tony Dowdall.

The Bridge Inn, Tatham - Saturday 10th November, 11.30am

Remembrance Day Meet

Photos of the meet are now online. As you’ll be able to see if you look at the pictures although it threatened sunshine it never materialised, and our photographer spent hours running around in the rain. Thank you to all those people who gave him a lift, especially after he ran all the way up Agnes Ing Lane!

The Field, Lunesdale 20th October 2007

We have just updated the website to add some photo albums

Our thanks go to John Vine for providing us with photos from the Lunesdale meet, here as our first album.

Sending Photos

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Please note change to Meet Card.

Additional changes to the card have been made to the Fixtures Page.

The Swan Inn, Barbon - Wednesday 7th November, 11.30am

Please use the VLH Hunt Country Map, which highlights the meets with an M, to help you find your way to the meets.