Not counting my pheasant poults BUT we seem to be making fantastic progress. Something has clicked and I have enjoyed (and I mean enjoyed) two days or rather evening walks of about one mile on a perfect loose lead, apart from about three occasions when she got to the end of the lead (not pulling though) when we were getting close to the footpath were she knows she will be let off to hunt, I can forgive this for now but I did stop on each occasion and repositioned her. Slip lead with all of the lead out and eze has been at perfect heel. I am not sure how this has happened, I have been doing a lot of off lead heel training and also had a few walks with the WYDWL lead kindly donated by murphys law, maybe its a combination of things I am not sure but either way I am a very happy chap.
I said heel just the once and started to walk without any further vocal command or praise as I have a suspicion that in certain contexts "good girl" has become a release command.
Going for a hat trick tonight so fingers crossed 👍