The frozen ground had stayed with us since New Year's Day, causing us to miss a Sunday. Carolyn and James Fair kindly invited us to meet on foot up at Keyham Farm, so that we could have a “party meet” for Mark, and then hunt over the Silk’s land at Priors Dean.  Rosie Mileham kindly made a birthday cake, with a little help from her sister Freya, and Joint Master Alice Geaves presented Mark with a montage of pictures from his time with the bloodies, on behalf of all the members of the hunt.  Nick Hudson had to run slowly so that Emily and fell runner Peter, could keep up – at least that’s Nick’s version!

Photographs by Louise Hudson and Mary Lovell (Click to enlarge)