Kaz did her swift water rescue course again – which she said
was pretty good – lots of swimming in the water at Carlisle and over at
Ambleside – here are some of the pictures.
Grandma and grandpa looked after us and we got loads of fun and
fuss.
It was Kaz’s birthday on the 6th Oct and me and
Angus made it extra special for her by jumping all over her with very muddy
paws!
On the next Saturday Kaz and her team mate Lisa went for a
fell run and we went along – it was a lovely day and me and Angus must have run
for at least 10 miles – the ball was thrown about loads for us two. Kaz and Lisa were a bit tired at the end of it tho!
On Friday 11th Kaz and Alan from the team went to Eden FM to do a radio interview when they told everyone about all the things that Mountain Rescue do - apparently they will be going every month to do a listener phone in! Here they are just after the interview
Then on 12 |October we had a really nice training weekend - the weather was really nice and me and Kaz did a lot of searching - especially for Jim who I found in a tree even though Kaz told me off for barking up the tree - she said sorry when Jim poked his head out! Angus did a brilliant search and went through the woodland across the footbridge and over the fell to the back of the cricket ground and then back into Patterdale's base where he found Woody who had gone and set the trail about 4 hours earlier!
Here are the bodies - Jim, Keith and Adrian before going into hide; some selfies of me and Kaz and me barking up the tree (not the wrong one) and Jim emerging from it
The following Saturday me and Angus and Kaz had grandma staying cos grandpa
was out with his friends for the weekend – it was nice as we got to go out for
a nice walk with her and played with the ball in the river for ages!
On Sunday night Kaz and us woke up at 1am to the pager going
off – it was a call to help Patterdale rescue some children on an expedition
near Glencoyne – the wind was really howling and I am pretty glad we didn’t have
to go too! Kaz and the team went up from
a place called Seldom Seen and carried the stretchers and loads of equipment up
– it was so windy they were getting blown over a lot which ended up with one of
the Patterdale team breaking his leg which wasn’t funny
Here’s a picture of the team heading down the hill at the end (you can see how steep it was) and reaching the landrover.
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It was a long night for the team and kaz got home at 6.30am
just in time to go off to work at 7am.
When she came home she took us for a walk although to be honest she wasn’t
really in sparkling form!
On Tuesday morning Kaz went swimming training at 6.30 in the
morning before work – I really don’t know where she is getting her energy from
at the moment!!
Kaz had another callout again on Tuesday night – it was a
really nasty night – the callout was for 11 children on an expedition with an
outdoor centre – the weather had taken a real turn for the worse and they were
feeling very unwell and had called Patterdale for help – who had called us out.
It was 7pm and as it wasn’t a search I didn’t need to go
along – Kaz said they had to walk up a very steep route to the casualties and
she was carrying a lot of equipment to them.
When they got there kaz was in charge of walking the ones that felt ok
off the hill whilst 3 of them were put into the helicopter and taken to hospital. Kaz got home at 1.30am and was feeling a bit
tired.
Here is a link to Penrith MRT facebook where there is a bit
of video of the helicopter – the lights on the right hand side are Kaz and the
group of children making their way off the hill.
On Thursday morning Kaz took us for a nice run in Lowther
before she went off to work, but when she got home from work she decided not to
go swimming as she was really tired so we cuddled up on the floor and watched a
film which was nice.
Today is the 1st November and Kaz decided to take
us both out early for a nice walk in Lowther – it really didn’t feel like it is
winter yet as it was very warm and as you can see we were definitely enjoying
ourselves playing with the ball.
Kaz then left us at home after breakfast as she was off to
run in a race in Penrith – it was a 5k Parkrun and she did manage to finish it
in a good time (she was very pleased with herself). Then she went to the bike shop to talk to
them about her new bike and after that she came home and said she was talking
us out to Mardale Head for a walk on the fells.
We left Mardale Head and went up to Smallwater and the then
up the steep zigzag path to Nan Bield shelter – it was getting very windy there
and so Kaz had a cup of tea and played with me and Angus for a bit. We left the shelter and started walking up
Harter fell – it got really windy and sometimes Kaz was practically on her
hands and knees – suddenly we were hit by a wall of rain which was horizontal
and stung our eyes so we were pretty glad when we eventually got down to the
path at Gatescarth where we had shelter from the wind.
Kaz went to bed a bit early after playing on the hill with
us – to be honest we were both tired too so were quite glad to crash out in the
kitchen. At about midnight the phone
rang and it was a call from the ambulance service asking for the team to go to
near Carlisle to help a man who had fallen off his motorbike. Kaz told me we weren’t needed so me and Angus
settled down and she went off. The man
had broken his leg badly and the team had to help stretch it out and he was in
loads of pain she said. Kaz eventually
came back home at 4.30 this morning and went back to bed for a couple of hours
before Angus decided to wake her up as he was hungry for breakfast – I told him
to let her sleep but he ignored me – idiot!
Kaz is telling me we need to get going as we are off to meet
up with Kath and Adrian at Kirkby Stephen to do a bit of training with them. On Tuesday I am off with Kaz to do a talk at
Dacre about me and the other dogs so I’ll let you know how that goes.
