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WARWICKSHIRE WALK & QUIZ - 27TH JULY 2025
We were blessed with a nice mainly sunny day for our first event of 2025, our walk and quiz. We enjoyed a nice stroll around Ryton Pools Country Park before gathering at Baginton Village Hall for welcome refreshments in the form of tea/coffee and cakes. Our quiz was a combination of general knowledge questions, together with clips from the beginnings and endings of popular songs - which caused much discussion and furrowed brows, plus people singing snippets to themselves to try and remember what the song was called! After a tie-break the quiz winners were Carol & Rob Gray with Alice, with runners up Geraldine & Alan Ramage with Sky. Our sales stall was open for business, with Christmas cards being particularly popular! Also we held a raffle and would like to thank people for the prizes which were donated. Doggy and human treat bags were handed out, so that everyone went home with some goodies to enjoy.
Also we were very generously gifted a beautiful hand made Airedale Terrier bag by Mr & Mrs Sanders, which we plan to raffle off in future to raise funds for Airedale Rescue. Thank you to talented seamstress Mrs Sanders for this lovely gift to the club.
Thank you as always to our club members for your support for our club and our events.
DISCOVER DOGS AT CRUFTS 2025
It doesn’t seem like twelve months since Crufts 2024 at the
NEC in Birmingham, but here we all were again for the 2025 show and Discover
Dogs.
In the show ring, the Airedales were judged by Mrs Maureen
Ward (Zabaretts) with David & Julie Brown’s dog CH Jokyl Daily Special JW (aka
Herbie) taking Best Of Breed.
The Airedale Terrier stand within the Discover Dogs section
was again co-ordinated by The Midland Counties Airedale Terrier Club, and manned
by our lovely volunteers from around the country. We had
lots of lovely comments about the stand, which was decorated to its always high
standard by MCATC Secretary Julie Martin and looked really impressive.
All four days of the show saw lots of visitors stopping by to
admire our Airedales and learn about the breed, or to share their experiences as
Airedale owners and talk about their dogs both past and present.
We were also visited on the Thursday by TV presenter Claudia Winkleman
who had her photo taken with Bramley, and on Sunday the vet Paul Manktelow,
featured on Channel 4’s Crufts coverage, popped by and had his photo taken with
Rosie. In addition, MCATC member Emma Lodder was interviewed by
the Daily Express, with the resulting article appearing on the paper’s website –
and also Dolly, owned by Bridget Singh, made an appearance in a GB News feature
on Crufts.
MCATC would like to thank the following volunteers and their
Airedales for helping us to make the stand such a success across the four days
of Crufts:
Rachel & Alan Greaves with Bramley; Anita Humphris with Mr
Darcey; Carol & Rob Gray with Alice; Louise Caulfield with Rosie; Andy Hull with
Gibson; Rebecca Hallam-Ward with Finn; Mark & Vicky Wilmott with Harry;; Melanie
Johnson-Holliday & family with Louie; Paula Hughes with Buttons Boy; Bridget
Singh with Albert; Dene & Jayne Alford-Evans with Reggie; Mandy & Ian Baker with
Shelby & Belle; Jo Blackburn with Edna; Jane Johnstone with Raven; and Emma
Lodder with Rory & Bunty.
As always everyone did a fantastic job – we couldn’t do it
without you all!
And of course, special thanks as always to Julie for the fabulous stand and for organising the tickets and passes for everyone.
WALK & QUIZ, BAGINTON - SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2024
We were again fortunate to miss the worst of the weather for our walk around Ryton Pools Country Park near Coventry, followed by a quiz at Baginton Village Hall. Despite the heavy rain of the previous few hours, the sun came out on the day. After a leisurely walk around Ryton Pools everyone met up at Baginton Village Hall for a picnic lunch plus soup, tea and coffee and cakes. Everyone's grey matter was tested with this year's quiz - won after a very close tiebreak, by Ian & Mandy Baker, with Paul Davis & Gina Lord a very close second - well done to them! We also could not have an MCATC event without the 'Wrap Your Airedale In A Toilet Roll' game - which was won by Carol Gray & Alice. An honourable mention must go to Mr Darcey owned by Anita Humphris, whose idea of this game is a little different to everyone else's, with the object being to see how long you can keep the toilet roll firmly in your jaw rather than being wrapped around you! Top marks for entertainment value Mr D!
We also raffled off the beautiful hand made bag donated by Pete & Linda Sanders - this was won by Mandy Baker - and £50 was raised for Airedale Rescue. Thank you again to The Saunders for donating such a lovely item.
As always the committee would like to thank our members for their continued support for our club fun days, it is always a pleasure to meet with fellow Airedalers and enjoy a chat, a laugh and a catch up on a nice sunny day.
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