Lots of sun, lots of rain and busy times

Since I blogged last it's been a bit mad - grandma fell over and broke her arm last week so has been in hospital - she is now at home and a bit fed up with a plaster on her had which means that opening the treat jar is a little bit awkward for her....Angus has been given strict instructions to not jump at her which he sometimes seems to forget.

So the big news since last time is that Kaz's great friend Elly and her dog Bracken and Dave and his dog Fern both finally got their green tags to say they are now an operational dog team - Kaz was very pleased for them both and so am I cos that means there are more of us search dogs to go out and look for people.

Here they are:-

 

We were all training in Coniston and me, Angus and Kaz went off up to Leverswater to help Roger train John Dunbavin and Cuillin and Kathy and Mara and Martin and Isla - they were all really good on the scree slopes and did very well.  Me and Kaz went off to find Terry later on in the day and then Kaz and Angus did a trail all the way round Leverswater for Terry.... and I made sure he got back safe -

 

 

 

Looking at the next pictures Angus started on the right hand side of the first picture where he was given the scent of the missing person (Terry) who had walked this way about 2 hours before hand.  He then had to decide which way to go (as there had been a lot of people up and down the path and also the baby dogs were working up the hill on the right).  Once he told Kaz which way to go they went round the back of the lake just above the shoreline and the path.  They had to go passed a family but Angus concentrated and carried on.

 Angus then worked to a path junction where lots of walkers had carried on (to the right of the picture below) and he indicated to Kaz that the missing person had carried on round.  Angus led Kaz above the path and over the small hillocks in the middle of the pic and then carried on round - even though John and Cuillin were working in the opposite direction.

 And as they came round the lake they dropped below the path and continued going to the left of the pic below dropping right down to the lake shore where Terry was hiding in a boulder.

 

Here's Ted supervising (don't tell him but he's a very handsome dog)

 

 

and here's Roger, Dave and Martin chilling out and me looking perfect

 

 

 

After the training weekend we had loads of sunshine which was great cos Kaz has been taking us out lots after work - we even got to swim with her in Blea Water one evening last week which was great fun and then we had our tea by the tarn until it got chilly and a bit midgy. This is Blea Water.

 

 



 And this is Angus on the way down from Small water a couple of nights later

Then it was training up at Whinlatter and Angus has been training hard - this time he had to select the right person from a line of people - which he was good at - and after that body Deb had made cake for us all for her birthday 

 

 

On the next day and Glenn from the rescue team did a session with Cumbria Fire and Rescue to show their apprentices all about Mountain Rescue.  They all seemed to enjoy themselves and they gave us lots of fuss.  It ended with a pretend search for a casualty and then they had to deal with the injury - they were very good although it took them a long time to find Glenn, so I showed them what I can do!

Kaz and me and Angus then spent a really nice day at something called PotFest in the park which was people who make sculptures and pots and things showing them to the public inside the big house and grounds at Hutton in the Forest.  We really enjoyed ourselves - and the gardens were lovely.

 

The following night just as Kaz got home we were going to go for a bit of a run, there was a callout for a possible missing man in the Mardale area - so she went down to meet the man's friend who had left him after he started saying he felt unwell.  Luckily Kaz found the man really quickly (I didn't even have to search as she could see him) and she treated him for dehydration before the rest of the team got there.  So afterwards me and Angus still got a run but just round the end of Mardale instead of up at Helton. 

Then there was another training session at Whinlatter and this time it was Rob's 40th birthday so guess what - more cake!  Kaz says she's been really enjoying training lately - I wonder why??

Angus has been continuing to train really hard every week as you can tell from this shot...

But for the last 3 days him and Kaz have been in Bowland for the trailing weekend - and I stayed at home to look after grandma and grandpa.  Kaz took the little caravan as well and so off they went.

Angus had to do 3 different trails in the country park, around an industrial estate and in the area round the Bowland Pennine Team base.  Apparently he did very well on all three and found the casualty each time!  Hopefully if he continues like this it wont be very long at all. But the best news is that Maria and Scarlet finished their assessments and have become a graded lowland Trailing Dog team.  Everyone else - Nick and Woody, Kathy and Tally, Jamie and Diesel, Doug and Jaffa, Benny and Brock, Tim and Damian all had a really good weekend.  Here is Angus finding Cliff the Mountain Rescue Bear

This was the view inside Kaz's caravan this morning - she was so cozy that she couldn't be bothered to get out of bed! Lazy girl

 

Anyway more news soon as Kaz wants to take us both out.............