Hunting in London on Boxing Day

[JJ1987]

If you were given the opportunity to join in a hunt in London on boxing day would you take it?
One of my friends has been offered the opportunity and thinks she can get me in on the deal as well.
The only problem is we've never hunted before but always wanted to so would this be a good idea or really really wrong :S ??
Any help/thoughts people have would be most appreciated and if anyone has done such a thing please share your experience!

 

[Addicted to Hunting]

Hunting in London??? Alot off people have one their first hunts on boxing day, or their one hunt a year so you should be fine! Am rather confused that it's in London though, can't see that there will be much cantering galloping and jumping anyway!

 

[Dovorian]

Greenwich Park! Try out some of the olympic xc course!!
Years ago we had a mock hunt on Hampstead Heath - bet that wouldn't be allowed now.

 

[Addicted to Hunting]

Which hunt with? Suppose I just think off roads and houses in London, my mistake!

 

[aintgotnohay]

wot u hunting urban foxes?

 

[soggy]

Judging by my years of shooting dumped urban foxes I wouldn't have thought they would have offered much of a challenge or very good sport.

When lamped they just sit there looking confused, and then simply flop over when the old .222 hits them.

 

[EAST KENT]

London being well foxed it would be great fun,start in Hyde Park and just go with the flow..be a long day.

 

[Mike007]

I couldnt take Bob the notacob because of the Low Emissions Zone

 

[Hunters]

Whilst a quite exciting idea, have those considering organising the day considered the below:

1) Boxing Day is one of the biggest days in the hunting calendar both financially and support wise, to pull support from hunts may hit them unfairly.

2) Whilst potentially fun and quite anarchaic, would the idea give a good image of hunters?

3) Has anyone spoken to the MFHA or Countryside Alliance regarding the idea?

4) Where are the hounds coming from? What if one were hit by a car - Bad press...

Lovely idea, but not sure it has been thought through.

 

[jodiepony]

Is this for real?! Working in the city Monday - Friday, I cant logistially see this posisble, ha. I presumed the OP was joking, maybe i'm wrong.

 

[EAST KENT]

Great fun..London will be very quiet that day,it is simply heaving with foxes,where and when? Bit of roadwork..so must`nt forget a new set of road nails/studs!!

 

[soggy]

Are the Connaught Square Squirrel Hunt still holding their meets?

If they are you could always pop along and stick a pony in the cap.

IIRC they use to meet at the Duke of Kendal, Connaught Street, W2. Before moving off to give the local vermin a scare or two.

 

[SusannaF]

According to the 1953 Pony Club annual, the Berkeley kennelled hounds at Charing Cross in the late eighteenth century and hunted on Wormwood Scrubbs and Kensington Common...

 

[JJ1987]

Only just come back to this thread - glad to see some people have a sense of humour! I don't think it's actually IN London, more sort of "that way" - don't ask for specifics my friend just said London area so I'm not sure where it is yet but she's looking into it -- maybe we're just both being had lol

 

[Alec Swan]

Clapham Common would make an excellent meet. Can you imagine the foot followers? Early morning hospitality could be cold burgers, washed down with a Stella, or two.

It would be a way of introducing town folk to the delights of rural life! I bet that they'd love it!

Alec.

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Clapham Common would make an excellent meet. Can you imagine the foot followers? Early morning hospitality could be cold burgers, washed down with a Stella, or two.

It would be a way of introducing town folk to the delights of rural life! I bet that they'd love it!

Alec.

What's wrong with cold burgers and Stella mate! haha.

 

[Alec Swan]

What's wrong with cold burgers and Stella mate! haha.

Nothing at all, and before the domestic arrangements, here, took a turn for the better, it formed my staple diet!

Alec.

 

[Hunters]

I've just been told by my sister that the kimble wick have a hunt around mortimer reading on the 27 Dec. That's about as close as it gets to hunting around a town???

Should scare a few motorists etc lol !!

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

Nothing at all, and before the domestic arrangements, here, took a turn for the better, it formed my staple diet!

Alec.

Not sure I would eat cold burgers.. but cold chinese, now you are talking!

 

[soggy]

Not sure I would eat cold burgers.. but cold chinese, now you are talking!

In my wayward youth when first working as an underkeeper with no money and a constitution of a rhino and an appetite to match I have been known to scoff down more than 1 half eaten donna and a couple of cans of opened john smiths for my breakfast. I found they went down best when there was plenty of chillie sauce soaked into the pitta bread. It sort of cut through the cold congealed mutton grease better. Well I hope it was mutton grease.

In fact they formed a staple part of my diet for about 9 months until the kebab shop closed.

Fortune favours the brave....................

 

[Oscarsmum]

I've just been told by my sister that the kimble wick have a hunt around mortimer reading on the 27 Dec. That's about as close as it gets to hunting around a town???

Should scare a few motorists etc lol !!

Mortimer near reading is very rural, hunted round there myself as I live here. No motorists will be scared!

 

[Simsar]

James do you know anything about this???????

 

[Orangehorse]

Pre-ban I was told that hunting during the week within the M25 was OK, as everyone who lived in the houses was at work.

 

[icklemadame]

The OSBWK hunt within the M25, and have several days where you have a clear view of London for most of the day however the only boxing day hunt i'm aware of within the m25 will be the warlingham mock hunt from chelsham common xx