Posted by Woll on September 15, 2011 at 02:09:55 user Woll.
In Reply to: Re: The Dogs' Home posted by Mike Field on September 14, 2011 at 14:29:17:
Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the other hut. It was raining so hard, I was trying to keep my camera dry enough to take photos of The Dogs' Home (if I found it). Just taking those photos was a bit worrying! The other hut is in slightly more open woodland, and set into the hillside a bit, so that you can easily look down on the roof (which has fallen in) - and probably rather more easily have climbed onto the roof to push in moss.
One other thing I noticed is that The Dogs' Home seems to be increasingly encroached upon by trees and bushes. The photos I saw of it before I actually went there (taken at least 10 years or so ago I guess) showed what appeared to be a small clearing in front of it (much smaller than the clearing shown with AR's special "super-wide-angle lens" that he used for the illustrations, but a clearing nevertheless).
Now the trees and bushes are quite close to the front so it feels very enclosed and a bit foreboding, as if savages could leap out of the trees before you had a chance to see them. That feeling is probably partly down to the torrential rain when I was there, which weighed everything down!