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Post by andyandjan on Nov 28, 2012 22:10:00 GMT
Wheathampstead Common
Day / Date / Time - Sunday 27th April - 10am
Meeting Point – The walk starts a short walk away from the car park to the river, someone will be at the car park to advise where to meet
Address:
Public Car Park Behind The Bull Pub
High Street
Nearest Postcode: AL4 8BS
Directions: Public car park is in East Lane
At The Bull Pub turn off the High Street into East Lane
Please do not park in the pub car park. Tthe public car park has a yellow restriction height bar across it
Nearest Postcode: AL4 8BS
Parking: Free
Suitable for buggys and wheelchairs: No - this walk is across fields.
Toilet facilities: Public toilets or in the pub
Refreshments: Yes in the pub
Contact name and phone number of walk leader - Andy: 07939 055031
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Post by exracers on Dec 11, 2013 18:11:04 GMT
Andy
Should this read 27th April 2014 (or do I need a new calendar) ? x
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Post by andyandjan on Dec 11, 2013 21:48:14 GMT
Andy Should this read 27th April 2014 (or do I need a new calendar) ? x Well spotted Susan! Yes, it should. The Walk Coordinators are about to process the walks for next year and so far there has been some copy and pasting which requires amendments to be made, which will happen over the next few days! All will be made well as if by magic (when I get round to it!)  |
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Post by andyandjan on Jan 4, 2014 10:55:08 GMT
I got round to it!  |
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Post by Steve K (Booze & Nina) on Apr 23, 2014 19:22:25 GMT
Well, the date might have been in question for a bit there, but it's this Sunday so bumping it up for all to see  Lovely walk this one - plenty of views and varied terrain, I might even try to make it myself! |
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Post by exracers on Apr 25, 2014 10:05:04 GMT
Hope you can make it Steve, we'll have to amble a little more slowly so that we don't have to wait too long for the pub to open for coffee/beer/food!
We can always go for a paddle in the river if it's sunny.
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Post by exracers on Apr 28, 2014 12:15:31 GMT
24 dogs took their owners for a cloudy, but dry, walk on Sunday including some we hadn't met before. (A few photos on the other thread).
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Post by andyandjan on Apr 28, 2014 14:14:50 GMT
24 dogs took their owners for a cloudy, but dry, walk on Sunday including some we hadn't met before. (A few photos on the other thread). Dry Walk - see, you can do it without me! |
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Post by Heathers Hounds on Apr 28, 2014 17:15:45 GMT
Thanks to Susan and Terry for taking us on the walk and it's good there.
Shame the "pub" now thinks it's a classy restuarant and will not serve food outside plus it did a couple of chip portions but when poor Kris asked a few minutes after "we're finished, not doing any more".
A garden full of people who might have had a light snack but "you have to eat in the restuarant" . At least they've put proper beer on tap again, Doom Bar.
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Post by Anne.T on Apr 28, 2014 20:09:29 GMT
I was disappointed not to get to this walk but Vidia unfortunately came down with a limp a couple of days before. She had a very small cut in one of her pads which was causing her to limp when walking on hard surfaces, she's fine on grass though so hoping it is just bruising and she is being a typical greyhound wimp!
Shame about the pub not serving food in the garden area, strange way to run a business or are they only refusing to serve dog walkers?
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Post by exracers on Apr 29, 2014 14:59:23 GMT
I think they just went into meltdown when a lot of people turned up at the same time. The staff were polite enough, just not enough of them. Before the next walk I'll check that they a) haven't banned dogs in the garden and b) are prepared for a possible early-doors flurry of customers.
Top tip: stick to something in a bottle or from the pumps, coffee and tea come up looking very pretty with doilies and little doll-sized milk jugs but take forever.
(If all else fails, it's a flask down by the river on the grass).
Hope Vidia is getting better now. See you both soon.
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Post by Anne.T on Apr 29, 2014 19:59:59 GMT
No limping today so hoping Vidia is sorted now.
Maybe we should have our summer picnic at Wheathampstead, down by the river?
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Post by Steve K (Booze & Nina) on Apr 30, 2014 18:34:56 GMT
No limping today so hoping Vidia is sorted now. Maybe we should have our summer picnic at Wheathampstead, down by the river? Glad to read that Vidia's limp has gone, Anne. Great idea about the picnic - it would certainly make the journey for those of us to the south and west even more worthwhile. I was also sorry not to make this one but we had a Sikh festival parade here which closes the road outside my house for much of the day so it's either stay out all day or stay indoors, and since Booze stresses if he's out for too long, we just took a gentle stroll around our local park and then went back to bed - Booze never stresses about sleeping! |
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Post by exracers on May 1, 2014 19:50:20 GMT
Re the picnic walk, that's up to Andy & Jan to decide but I have a feeling that the new calendars will have already gone to print.
My reservation is - would people be prepared to walk all the way back to the car park to fetch their chairs and lunch etc and then lug them back to the river again?
(Or I have this vision of 40 odd people struggling around the entire walk laden down with fold-up chairs, blankets, cool boxes, dog beds, sunshades, etc..............)
At least at 'Chippy', the car park is close by. Over to Andy.
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