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10 OLLY THE OWL A heart warming true reader’s story brought to you over our first three editions
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BHF’S TESTING HALF MARATHON AT HAREWOOD HOUSE Although posted and promoted as a halfmarathon, British Heart Foundation’s inaugural fundraising event at Harewood House on 8 February had a surprise in store for some of the participants. Yes it was run over the expected thirteen miles. But those thirteen miles were over undulating
The event benefited from BHF’s slick organisational skills.
BHF is a regular organiser of sponsored events such as this, and their inaugural event at Harewood was as slick an operation as might be expected. An invitation has already been extended for runners and fundraisers to register their interest in the 2016 repeat event (again in February, though date TBC) - bhf.org.uk/harewood
Second-placed Darran Bilton of Leeds City AC was the highest placed local club runner, finishing with a time of 1.25.42 – creditable, though over two minutes behind Trawden AC’s Chris Singleton. But the fundraising event wasn’t targeted only at committed and experienced runners. Many participants finished in three hours or more.
BHF mascot Artie Beat was in attendance, though had decided to give the course a miss...
countryside, farmland and country footpaths rather than on roads and pavements. So, even more hats off to the 819 runners who completed the course. With funds still coming in, the total amount raised has yet to be announced. 6 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
Readers interested in participating in another local though shorter event might consider running this year’s “Over the Odda”, a ten kilometres (six miles) cross-country run now in its third year and raising funds for Hawksworth C of E School. Full details of Over the Odda 10k are easy to find on Facebook and bookitzone.com
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AIREBOROUGH FESTIVAL It was only in 2011 that The Localism Act formally introduced neighbourhood (planning) forums – local bodies responsible for helping inform local plans and development where there is no existing parish or town council. Aireborough Development Neighbourhood Forum is one such example. So, without having the experience and resources available to neighbouring town or parish councils, it is a credit to ANDF that they were able to organise a fortnight’s celebration of all things Aireborough. The festival included events and exhibitions on almost every
When Suburban visited, on 19 February, the afternoon had been dedicated to local sports organisations and voluntary sector (Aireborough’s hidden treasures). The hall was packed with stands and the stands packed with enthusiasm and information. Too many and too much to give a roll call here, but anyone wishing to find or contact any of the sports or voluntary organisations which serve the area should be able to do so through Rawdon Library – a volunteer-run exLCC library which was among the exhibitors on the afternoon.
Ticking all the boxes. ANDF’s permanent display during Aireborough Festival included a comments board, here with member Richard Webster.
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OLLY THE OWL Brian Firth, a retired businessman from Guiseley currently volunteering as a Community First Responder with Yorkshire Ambulance Service, shares his story with Suburban. There are obvious parallels with Barry Hines’ Kes. But Brian’s story is true. It’s also so heart warming that, rather than cut it to size, we’re running it in three instalments.
Brian’s Story I was aged around eleven when Olly and I first met. That would have been in 1958. My pal David and I were walking home through Ghyll Royd when I spotted a ball of fluff on the footpath. Then the two large round eyes staring back. It was a tawny owl chick, bleeding from the nostrils and with a cracked beak. It seemed too tired to be frightened. We looked round but there were no signs of any nest or adult owls. So I did what any kid of eleven might do - picked him 10 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
Olly the owl with his new friend, Brian Firth. The friendship was to last more than three years.
up and took him home. The vets were closed so my parents helped me put him in a cardboard box, left him some water and went to bed. They warned me that he would probably die during the night. I jumped
up in the morning and ran downstairs. There he was, wide awake and squawking for food. Chopped worms did the trick. The vet told us that he’d never treated an owl. Although he was able to
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brown feathers. Though he never made the twit twoo they do in the movies, just a clicking sound. Then a repertoire of screeches, squeaks and squawks. I was sure he was trying to tell me something. Maybe he was referring to the family dog, Kell, a Labrador multi-cross. Was Olly looking for a playmate or a larger mouse?
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“OLLY SEEMED TOO TIRED TO BE FRIGHTENED. WE LOOKED ROUND BUT THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF ANY NEST OR ADULT OWLS. SO I DID WHAT ANY KID OF ELEVEN MIGHT DO - PICKED HIM UP AND TOOK HIM HOME” confirm that there were no serious injuries, he didn’t give him much chance of survival. Dad and I went back to Ghyll Royd that night, hoping to reunite him with his family. We waited for ages, but nothing. The only option was to keep him. And call him Olly. The chopped worms stopped working. The vet had read up on owl diets and recommended lamb heart tightly bound with feathers. And the occasional wild mouse. Kays butchers on Town Street on Guiseley kept me well supplied with lamb heart so I gave
the mice a miss. Two weeks later and it seemed that Olly was going to stay for a while. Dad and I built a large indoor aviary, on top of the coal bunker. I also bought a live mouse trap – and let Olly do the rest. It was the only exercise he had at the time. One week into the new menu and Olly gave me a bit of fright. Was he choking? No - he was regurgitating a ball of feathers, fur and bones. It was apparently what owls did. A couple of months later and Olly had shed his down and grown rich
By that time I was facing up to the reality of releasing Olly back into the wild. But he needed some flying lessons. Or at least some backup if he couldn’t find his wings immediately. Although a novice flying instructor, I’d got it all planned. Starting with Olly on my arm, I’d move it up and down to encourage take-off. Textbook stuff, yes? Kell would stay at home just in case he thought I was playing fetch. I took Olly out at dusk so that I could maintain sight. To the fields that are now Coppice Wood Crescent. There was plenty of countryside all around at the time. So far so good... Although Olly’s first flying lesson didn’t go according to plan, it was an episode in a friendship between bird and boy that was to last for three years. Read what happened next in our April issue. SUBURBAN MAGAZINE | 11
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Decoratin by HOLMES & SONS
EST 1928
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