Baz ( nearly 68 ) Slant on the week.

Shock of the week: Imagine sat in your van waiting for dawn to break ,hoping to find your lost hound, when! Clump! Clump!  Shuffle , Clump! ,shuffle, heavy breathing , clump! ,clump.!. Your all alone and afraid of the dark ,what Do you do ?. The van’s locked and then around the corner comes an elderly gent pulling a wheelie bin. The lady in question-Nicola  Napier who apparently suffers from Nyctophobia , hence the new tee-shirt slogan ‘Nycto Nick’.

By the way Foxparke Yankee Doodle aka Flynn turned up safe and sound.

Saying of the week attributed to the steward at Grasmere on Sunday – Question to Martin and Allison Langhorn – ‘ Are you two married’? Answer ‘no comment’ . By the way she was only doing her job, efficiently ,well organised, a bit like the opposition seventy years ago.

And fun and games on the road crossing – one confused motorist completely ignored the standing traffic and tried to ‘jump’ the stop sign. He was advised in no uncertain way by ‘anon”’ in England a stop sign means stop’ Happy Days!.

Sight of the week ; Carol Logan stripped down to her underwear after getting soaked at Bower on Monday and also at Bower . Is it our hound or not? The gypsy boys lost there voices shouting for ‘Joe’ only to find -wrong sex, wrong colour. Ah well ! back to the pub!

And also due a visit to specsavers  -Amy ,standing in for Duncan at Shap, caught and fed Meadow Dixie in mistake for My Way, poor Amy ,out of practice, but a green chest and a pair of balls ! . At least she had his lead more than can be said for Graham Reid.

To run trails you need the cooperation of many factors and on Monday the trails couldn’t be run unless the Eskdale and Ravenglass railway company liased with the promoter to ensure that all went smoothly and it did . Ta !

Back to the start and Mark Steele and Nicola Napier are sat in the ‘travelling dog kennel’. Nicola ‘ Mark I’m afraid of the dark ! – Mark replied ‘so am I’  cue -the bogeyman !.

And by the way if you are not a member and do not follow the sport anymore ,we would love to have you back, if not stop slagging the sport on the social media and for members and followers there are better ways of expressing your thoughts than ‘facebook’.