Attwood Farm, Bodle Street Green
Sunday 24th November

Hounds met at Attwood Farm, Bodle Street Green by kind invitation of Mr and Mrs J Petrides and Mr and Mrs N Godwin. At the meet there was the sad announcement that George Hobden had died, who had ridden to hounds avidly in his youth and in his latter years had followed the bloodhounds regularly in his car. There was a minute's silence.

Hounds were laid on down the road from the meet. With our host Nic Godwin out up at the front of the field on his coloured horse, they hunted down the track and swung round the fields and turned back towards the farm, where they took their quarry after a short sharp hunt over several fences, with the last hedge causing some chaos in the wet going.

Once again for the second hunt hounds were laid on in front of the farm. They hunted round the back of the wood, hunting on to Hole Farm. They hunted down to the stream, checking on the road before they were soon away along the water meadows, where they hunted in a large circle, giving the field the chance to jump the hedges, before taking their quarry, Chris, in the stream below the farm cottages.

For the third hunt they were taken down Prinkle Lane and laid on by Toll Shaw. They hunted down past Cowden Wood, along the water meadows, where Basil was the only hound to hunt behind the pond on the side the quarry had gone. They crossed over the Nunningham Stream before hunting up the stubble fields beside 14 Acre Wood. Once on the grass they really flew to take their quarry at the top of the hill by Joe's Lane.

For the fourth hunt they hunted back down to 14 Acre Wood and on past Long Wood where hounds ran really fast down the side of Tilley Lane, where the going for the horses was really soft, to take their quarry at Tilley Bridge.

It was wet ground and hard work for the horses, but the going did not seem to slow the hounds down at all.