Dog walk Middle East Style with some Krypton Factor goodness
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Who would have thought just simply walking my dog in a new place would lead, pardon the pun, to a east meets west encounter?
It's been a lovely sunny bank holiday in the SE of England, cough, so I thought I would take my dog Wispa on a nice walk here around historic Ightam Mote house. A new route for us.
So we set off from the church bottom right to go the triangle up to the Ightam Mote house (nice ice-creams by the way) and not 100 yards from the chruch we had the stile from hell. I have a broken back and so took a while to get over this tall and imposing beast and our dog could not get over it all all so we lifted all 25kg of him over. Then the same sort of stile again on the other side, which was strange as this was not even a place you would graze sheep as a working farm.
We went over a couple more, by this time my extremely rare crossbreed/mongrel hybrid was getting rather bummed about the whole deal. Man with broken back lifting 25kg of wet smelly pissed off dog.
We then continued around the path seeing sheep very securely penned in, through the wood, up to Ightam and then back down. We met several other dog walkers and in general chat they kept mentioning the middle east owners which was interesting. Why? My curiosity was piqued.... I felt some undercurrent.
Getting back home I did a google and found this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8915019/Ken...
Which is both quite funny and quite sad.
Sad that they say
"that dog walkers were worrying his sheep, that the path invaded his privacy and was a threat to the security of the estate."
when the sheep are in a field completely penned in with fencing, and funnily enough we didn't meet him on our walk nor did we even see his house, which he probably never goes to. Security to the estate? Here's a guy who lives in a part of the world where people will fill up a truck with explosives and drive it at you just to make a point and he's worried about a Lab doing a poo and it not being cleared up. Ermm.
Sad also Kent County Council agreed to it also. Heads obviously turned by money and power. We all pay a s
tload to them down here each year, expect them to do better and not become a whor e. Public rights of way cannot be bought. People have fought for many years for us to now take the benefits of their hard work 
We won't be walking there again as we can do a dog friendly walk elsewhere, but hats off to the people still doing it as it is their "local". Keep doing it.
Whether you are coming through the channel tunnel or a rich Saudi billionaire when you come to this country you need to fit in as best you can. Or feck off.
My dog Wispa told me to write that last sentence
PS Hope Teddy the cocker spaniel was found. Owners were shouting for a long time.
It's been a lovely sunny bank holiday in the SE of England, cough, so I thought I would take my dog Wispa on a nice walk here around historic Ightam Mote house. A new route for us.
So we set off from the church bottom right to go the triangle up to the Ightam Mote house (nice ice-creams by the way) and not 100 yards from the chruch we had the stile from hell. I have a broken back and so took a while to get over this tall and imposing beast and our dog could not get over it all all so we lifted all 25kg of him over. Then the same sort of stile again on the other side, which was strange as this was not even a place you would graze sheep as a working farm.
We went over a couple more, by this time my extremely rare crossbreed/mongrel hybrid was getting rather bummed about the whole deal. Man with broken back lifting 25kg of wet smelly pissed off dog.
We then continued around the path seeing sheep very securely penned in, through the wood, up to Ightam and then back down. We met several other dog walkers and in general chat they kept mentioning the middle east owners which was interesting. Why? My curiosity was piqued.... I felt some undercurrent.
Getting back home I did a google and found this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8915019/Ken...
Which is both quite funny and quite sad.
Sad that they say
"that dog walkers were worrying his sheep, that the path invaded his privacy and was a threat to the security of the estate."
when the sheep are in a field completely penned in with fencing, and funnily enough we didn't meet him on our walk nor did we even see his house, which he probably never goes to. Security to the estate? Here's a guy who lives in a part of the world where people will fill up a truck with explosives and drive it at you just to make a point and he's worried about a Lab doing a poo and it not being cleared up. Ermm.
Sad also Kent County Council agreed to it also. Heads obviously turned by money and power. We all pay a s
tload to them down here each year, expect them to do better and not become a whor e. Public rights of way cannot be bought. People have fought for many years for us to now take the benefits of their hard work We won't be walking there again as we can do a dog friendly walk elsewhere, but hats off to the people still doing it as it is their "local". Keep doing it.
Whether you are coming through the channel tunnel or a rich Saudi billionaire when you come to this country you need to fit in as best you can. Or feck off.
My dog Wispa told me to write that last sentence
PS Hope Teddy the cocker spaniel was found. Owners were shouting for a long time.
Edited by Gandahar on Monday 31st August 15:30
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