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lly key man could make a replacement key which he would deliver to taxi lady once done rory and i would get ourselves to okehampton ideally the train station where taxi lady would meet us and hand over the key and then take us up onto the moor where the car would be waiting so i had renewed and thankful hope i had resigned myself to the fact that the phone and keys would not be recovered i was having minor palpitations about all the work contacts and data stored on my phone but most especially all the photographs holidays memories almost all of the offline photographs i had of gisele stephanie were stored on that phone the thought of losing those was a real sadness at least rory was safe back at the hotel the staff sunil and jetain were very pleased to see me looking unharmed but sorry for what had happened and then i think the full horror of the situation actually dawned on them and they were mortified at their unwitting part in it not having realised that the phone had gone along with the dog and car key and the implications of their not having been able to summon a taxi and not letting the army officers know but leaving a voicemail on my vanished phone and innocently believing that they d done enough they could not have been kinder it really wasn t their fault they let me use the hotel phone as much as i needed i was able to let my mum know what had happened but that rory was safe and unharmed and finally after a number of attempts i was able to speak to key man key man was aware of the situation by the time i got through to him having spoken to taxi lady he was kind and didn t laugh at my misfortune at all he was calm matter of fact and reassuring despite the fact that he lived fairly locally to the north of the moor he didn t know where the car was located it really was that remote but fortunately his father in law was staying with him and his father in law knew where it was so they went out together that night and successfully made the new key he rang me back at the hotel once it was done to reassure me so that i could at least get some sleep that night and i promised to call him back first thing in the morning to pay him i then began to plan how i was going to get myself to okehampton the following morning taxis from the hotel were known to be hard to come by but i thought i might at least be able to get one to plymouth station and thence get the train to okehampton alas there s no such thing as a direct train these days i would have had to get a train from plymouth to exeter and then exeter to okehampton with rory in tow but then i wondered how even if i get to okehampton how am i going to ring the taxi lady because there are no payphones anywhere anymore that quandary was rendered irrelevant in any case because the bloody trains were on strike the next day joy was just being heaped upon joys i decided i would phone taxi lady in the morning and see if i could appeal to her to taxi the key all the way to us in the hotel and then return with us to the car the hotel staff were anxious to be sure that i would have a taxi in the morning and so wanted to book one for me there and then in advance but we agreed to wait until the morning and after i had spoken to both key man and taxi lady again but cruel circumstance had not finished with me quite yet rory had been safely installed in the hotel room with his ill deserved supper and i went to return the hotel phone to reception there was another guest in the hotel who had overheard my relation of the day s events and my phone calls with key man while he was in the hotel bar he very kindly put details of my lost pack and its precious contents on the local facebook pages the wonderful taxi lady also put it on the okehampton facebook page for me bless her he also let me use his phone to put it on some other dartmoor pages that i frequent and i also notified the national park authority in case a ranger came across it the police didn t want to know whilst doing this the lovely hotel chaps had been closing up the kitchen for the night bless them both they then brought me a bowl of chicken curry that they had made themselves proper authentic chicken curry with everything including all the bits and bobs and bones of the chicken as with the snickers bar from luke earlier the gods of gastronomy were laughing at me once again i m a vegetarian these dear young men gave me the lovely curry that they d made after i d had such a horrendous time and with no food it was so very very kind of them i couldn t bear to turn it away or seem rude what could i do i pretended to eat it that s what i did i put it all in my mouth and chewed professing delight at every lovely mouthful and to be fair it was absolutely delicious i swallowed the tasty veg and mushrooms and the outstanding home made sauce but as soon as i was unobserved or a back was turned i took out the bits of unswallowed chicken and carefully concealed them about my person unobserved i was somewhat limited as to places of concealment as you may imagine so each piece of chicken was quietly transferred from my mouth to my hand and from thence to the only hiding place available my pants i take no pride in the fact that i did this for the entirety of the meal undetected in the presence of the other guest in the bar a more grateful and infinitely more honest recipient of some curry and my kind generous and thoughtful friends from the hotel i felt unbearably guilty the whole time wracked full of guilt and my pants full of curried chicken i then had to walk past everyone all of whom were cheerfully bidding me goodnight expressing again their sorry for the day s misfortunes trying to get across the lobby and up the stairs without chicken leakage or betraying the lumpen shapes about my lower regions which would announce my heinous traitorous disrespectful secretions once i was safely back in the room putting the chicken pieces of shame into rory s gratefully receptive maw i believed that i had never felt quite so wretched in my life so that was that day the following morning at breakfast with extra scrambled egg mushroom and a little hash brown on my plate guilt guilt guilt i phoned key man and paid him the 390 for the emergency replacement computer reprogrammed key very happily for me angel taxi lady kindly said she will come all the way down to the hotel with the key collect me and rory and drive us back out to the moor where the car was and all for another 55 which i felt was more than reasonable i cannot thank my helpers highly enough i can tell you that it was a sweet sweet sound when got out of the taxi pressed the key button and the car went peep peep and opened utter relief before she left taxi lady asked if i was going to stay up in the location and look for the waist pack i seriously thought about it but on just looking at the hillside i knew it would do me no good i decided that i was not going to torment myself by even trying to look for the pack at the hotel receptionists suggestion that morning i had tried ringing the phone from the hotel so that i could leave a voicemail message in case someone was able to find and unlock it it was still ringing but had not gone to voicemail and i suspected that the battery would soon run down as the phone also served as my alarm clock and would by now have been going off without me there to silence it i felt that the sheep had probably got it by now they are probably ringing domino s as we speak meeh eeh eeeh can i have extra pepperoni on mine please meeh eeeeh garlic bread meeh eeeh eeehhh another walker preparing himself for his day on the moor overheard the conversation and asked me about it once the taxi lady had left he expressed sincere sympathy and offered to help to look for the pack i was very grateful but i knew that we could look for days and never find it if the army and all their combined efforts yesterday could not locate it the chances of us finding it were extremely remote blessing again the assistance of taxi lady and key man i started the car and drove back down to the military camp guard house just to say thank you again to the soldiers for their help i was so grateful to them more than i could ever express luke sadly was not there and the officer on guard duty did not know who he was i think they address each other chiefly by surnames and i didn t know luke s i did leave a written note of thanks along with my details for the lost property in case anyone handed in the pack the civilian guard on duty remembered us from the previous day and said that he would keep an eye on the various facebook pages and with that i was all set to head off elsewhere but then i thought to myself no i m bloody well going to do this walk it s cost me an absolute fortune to get everything out here in terms of new keys gps and taxi fares i have just spent another 55 just to get back here so i am bloody well going to do it i hate to be defeated by anything and i was determined that this was not going to get the better of me i was going to stick two fingers up to the events of yesterday and not let it have the satisfaction of defeating me i was going to show fate what i thought of it by succeeding in doing the whole walk that i had planned and set out to do and claw back a little bit of victory for myself from the whole sorry episode so we did it the whole walk and every single letterbox waypoint it was the animal tors charity letterbox walk in aid of pancreatic cancer uk a lovely route and very nice stamps as it turned out rory was slightly hobbling his way around at times but my sympathy for him was limited i felt that he was the architect of his own misery and you re going to finish this walk and like it he actually did enjoy himself in the end though not the fact that he was now wearing two leads one clipped to his harness and literally tied to me and the other being an old lead of jasper s that i clipped to his collar i wasn t going to be complacent again it was very satisfying to complete the walk feeling that i had secured victory over defeat and return to the car happy less happily though still thankful for a better outcome than had at first seemed likely and very thankful that rory and i were together again for the rest of the holiday i had to restrict where we went in case i got myself in a tricky situation because i now had no phone with which to summon help if i was in a predicament plus the fact that the phone was also my sat nav though i was still able to navigate using paper maps never a wasted skill we were however still blessed with the new gps device and that promoted our enjoyment of several other walks in more easily accessible and less troublesome areas we had some lovely times and walks in the days remaining to us sadly i had no means of photographing them but they are committed to memory now and that will have to do my conscience still pricked me about the unwitting litter i had left somewhere on the north moor and i grieved for the loss of all those photographs of sweet gisele but i was incredibly mindful of how very much worse the situation could have been and thankful for the outcome i had received rory gamin de pycome returned to my side unharmed and innocent of malevolent wrongdoing or carnage was a blessing for which i will always be thankful it does beg the question of what on earth he was doing all the time that he was gone i ve come to the conclusion that i m probably better off not knowing he was gone for hours with no trace of him or his doings what was he up to actually i suspect that he found himself a nice secluded shady spot and had himself a good sleep for a few hours for a fit young dog in his prime he can be really quite remarkably idle on our last day we went out on a lovely gentle walk with beautiful letterbox stamps to find in the popular pew tor area where there is generally a highly worthy local ice cream van in the car park to reward ourselves on our return our final walk duly and happily completed we met some australian tourists also enjoying the rich bounty on offer from willy s ices on the moor they stopped to admire rory everyone does as with jasper and gisele they were adored wherever we went as now is rory i m just incidental rory is sooty and i am very much the matthew corbett of the piece but no matter he deserves to be loved i would much rather they looked at him than me i told them what rory had done they were laughing so much that one of them almost hurt himself they ended up taking photographs of the dog so that they could show their friends back in australia saying this is what this dog did look at him i got a small piece of quiet revenge they told me that they had just come from touring ireland and one of them had been kissing the blarney stone i asked them if they knew that the locals went down and pee ed on it at night but they laughed very heartily at that too in truth they were lovely people and it was nice to talk with them i was glad that our tales of mishap had made them laugh it s nice if we can make someone smile or make their day just that little bit better it was not exactly the uneventful and battery recharging holiday that i had hoped for but it has at least been a tale with a thankfully better than expected outcome which can make people smile i have committed the whole thing to record here in case i forget any of the finer details and also to remind me that however awful a day i might be having this one was worse and we came through it it was ok in the end of course i had to listen to sh t fm in the car all the way home as my carefully curated play list of tracks was on my phone and we had to get back in time to go to the phone store to get a replacement they also were kind sympathetic and helpful and a most happy coda to the whole came when it transpired that all my phone data including all the photographs of gisele stephanie had been backed up to the cloud all the way up to the morning of the fateful incident and were easily restored to my new phone i m still getting to grips with the new device and its many and varied settings but i am so so thankful for the backups i will never be tardy about employing them again alas the photos from the morning of the incident are non recoverable unless the old phone is located but i doubt that will ever happen but i m not sure i really want those the last photo i took was of rory at his first letterbox gurning at the camera with the box in the background that was taken approximately 45 seconds before that day turned to merry hell and i am not sure i want a pictorial memento of that none of this has deterred us we have already booked our return to dartmoor although old rory two leads gamin de pycombe will not be offered another opportunity for solo adventuring we keep smiling and very thankfully and gratefully so i suppose i should offer the last word to rory himself mamma refused to rub cream onto my sore and calloused paws unacceptable happy days posted by 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