i'm really looking forward to this now - mustn't forget the camera - question is... tulip wellies, croc - kermit wellies - or sensible walking boots?

oooh, kermit wellies!!!!

Must get batteries for the camera too...........

If anyone wants my mobile number in case they get lost, just pm me xxx

See.. I would've said tulip wellies!
We're excited now....

Packing....
Triumph (OOOH FUDS!!!)
lots of tennis balls
chuckit
treats
poo bags
spare lead
camera
big pocket to put Rufus in..oops.wasn't meant to say that out loud



Specially excited about seeing the pups!!

If you're bringing treats Jasper will be stuck to you like glue. He doesn't leave my side unless someone else has treats with them

hmm, ok - orange ball for Jasper (the girls aren't interested)
- pink paw wellies and wooly hat
- poo bags
- Camera
- money for triumph?

Oh, that reminds me car park is £2.50 (I know, extortionate!!!!!) And I finally found the Deer Barn tea room, if we make it that far, we can have a drink!

Triumph is a pound per person on the walk, and there's a wee book to write in about his travels too.
Tea room sounds good, we can take a pic of Triumph with his cuppa!

I could wear one of each?

It will have to be a huge pocket for Rufus... all 14kg of him

Is Rufus a lot bigger than Stellar? Fizz is approx 16kg and Archie must be 20kg, he's massive (in height as well as weight). They are 10 months now.

Archie wont be joining us, unfortunatly he wont have had his stitches out and isn't allowed to get wet or dirty. He requests we arrange another walk later on in the year and he will definatly come then.

How far is the Tea rooms? We can only walk for an hour or so because we have to go to a Mother's Day lunch thing and also dont want to over do it with Fizz and Lauren will be knackered.

Triumph on his way

Thanks J
I'm sure we can walk according to everyone's needs, and I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to duck out when you need to as well. And in my experience of Springer walks, we never get as far as we mean to, but it's always lots of fun

The beauty of Bradgate park is every few hundred feet you get to a fork - you can choose to take a diff path back to the car park, or carry on; then you get to another fork and choose again; there are sooooooo many paths that lead you directly back to the car park, that you can duck out whenever you need.

Jasper gets tired (as does yoyo - she has deformed elbows which make her tired. when we were in suffolk, michael ended up having to carry her home!!) so we usually do a max of 2 hours

Yes he weighs 14kg and Stellar 11kg - he has always been bigger, he is a very stocky dog with huge paws, they are just coming up to 6 months now, I think he is going to be a very large dog (his dad was pretty huge)

Looking forward to meeting Fizz... and of course we'll do it agin for Archie i think we will be pretty much ready for the tea rooms after an hour too - I can't imagine my two will take it steady when they see how many new friends they have to play with,, I'm sure my girls will help jolly lauren along if her legs get tired too

Hi all,completely forgot that Barney had to go in for his little boy op on tuesday!After it he was really drugged up and couldn't walk across the room without....stop....look around for a bit then fall over!Wednesday he just slept all day.But he still felt the earth quake and as i work nights the wife thought he was having a fit on wednesday morning!Anyway i got home this morning and he's still a bit sleepy when it suits him,but can run round the garden after birds!So all being we'll we'll be there on sunday,but can't really let him of the lead and he's going stir crazy having to stay in for a couple of days!

poor barney hope you can make it tho

I think it's 99% we'll make it because before today he'd only just eat a bit of chickenand at the moment he's chewing on bones!

right, off now, see everyone on sunday!! 10.30 sharp