WHAT'S NEW

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At fairly short notice, we've been invited to the 'Carols in the Den' at Huncote Village Hall, which starts at 6.30pm on Friday 16th December. After the carols, we can take the dogs and carts into the hall for refreshments, and to let everyone fuss the dogs. If you'd like to join in please contact Malcolm. .

Tim has negotiated 3 more carting appearances at the Centre MK in Milton Keynes, on the 27th November & the 14th & 15th December

We've been invited to attend a Christmas Bazaar at the Kathleen Rutland Home (on the A47 near Leicester Forest East) on Sat 3rd December. The event is both indoors and outdoors, and takes place from 10am until 12 noon. We only anticipate a few carts being there, but if you'd like to boost the numbers or need directions, then contact Malcolm .

Tim & Maggie have let us know that the Buckingham Christmas Carnival Parade will take place on Saturday 10th December . This year's theme is "Disney", and for more details please get in touch with Tim

An Important Note For Carters: If you wish to attend an event, particularly one which requires passes, please let the Co-ordinator of the event know in plenty of time, since, while we're all keen to maximise the turnout, it can be difficult to obtain extra passes at the last minute, and the size and location of the pitch allocated to us may well have been based on a smaller turnout, making it difficult to squeeze extra carters in at the last minute, quite apart from the difficulty of getting passes to people at the last minute.
Equally, if, having received passes, you find that you can't attend after all, PLEASE LET THE CO-ORDINATOR KNOW so that spaces are not being held unnecessarily on the pitch or camping area.
Here endeth the sermon!

The LINKS Page
The links to the BBA website on both the HOME Page and the LINKS Pagehave been updated to the site's new address, and a new link to the Bernese News website has also been added.

FOR THE WELL DRESSED CARTING DOG.....

Available to order from Wendy & Pete (for team members)- the Midland Bernese Carters' BANDANA

The logo in close up

Bandanas cost £5.50 each, of which 50p goes to a doggy charity nominated by Rosemary (who embroiders the bandanas)

Charity Donations for 2006 have now been added, which brings the total amount raised since we first began, to over £20,000. Sums donated from 2007 onwards are still being collated and will be added in due course.
When this page was firstestablished, it was only been possible to display 3 years worth of donations - 2003 to 2005, since the records for earlier years were locked away in floppy disks and compiled using a completely different word processing programme. It has finally been possible to unlock the data hidden away in these disks, and as a result you can now view all our charitable donations going right back to the early days of the team, when we were the 'Central Bernese Carters'. There is a link on the page to each year's donations and also to the Total amount raised since we started, up to the end of 2005 - I was staggered when I added it all up, to see just how much we'd raised between us.
ALL THE TEAM DESERVE A BIG PAT ON THE BACK FOR HAVING HELPED SO MANY DESERVING CAUSES OVER THE YEARS - THANK YOU AND VERY WELL DONE!

THE LINKS PAGE

A link has been added under 'Carting Links' to the Bernese Working Cart Group website, and the Athollbern Website has been moved to the 'Bernese Mountain Dog Links' section of the page.

The 'Links' page was overhauled a while back and re-named 'LINKS PAGE' instead of its old title, which was 'Carting Links'.
It now includes all the various links from all over the website, arranged by category, with a useful index at the top (well I think it's useful anyway...!) and interspersed throughout with links back to the index at the top.

A link has been added to a Bike Hire Company in the Dordogne Region of France, should anyone be thinking of holidaying there.

A link has been added to a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog site. Do have a look, as it's an opportunity to see our Berners' bigger cousin.

Also added to both this page and the Home Page is a link to the new Central Bernese Mountain Dog Club Website

For those in the Leics / Coventry area who are interested in kind, motivational dog training classes, don't miss the link to -

WOLVEY WOOFERS
in Wolvey, Warwickshire
(Niva's & Cimo's preferred training establishment)

Old News Retained for information

Those seeking more information on Bernese in general will find a link on the Homepage to the BBA website.

The CARTING TRIBUTES page is still awaiting an update to include several of our carting friends, to whom we've all had to say goodbye over the last couple of years. We hope to be able to complete this before too long as soon as I can find the time.

Dog & Carting Photographs	More Photographs
Carting Calendar	Two Carting Video Clips
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