A country walk without geocaching
I saw my personal tutor yesterday and 40% is a pass, 65% is a first so 55% is good - yay! Still no news of the other results though. Humpf.
Whilst tidying up (which is amazing in itself) I found a booklet of circular walks in the local area that was published in 1978, with hand drawn maps. Some of the walks near the town centre wouldn't be so interesting nowadays due to the amount of house building that has gone on since 1978, but we thought we'd give one of the more countryfied ones a go to see if it still possible to make it around the route without needing an up to date map.
It seemed kind of weird going out for a walk in the countryside without a plastic box to look for, but there was a trig point near our route, so that was OK. Well, the result was - it is still possible to use the booklet (although we did have an OS map, just in case) and we saw some nice countryside we hadn't been to before. We even found ourselves walking through a field of asparagus!
Our diversion to find the trigpoint was fun. It was on a golf course but a public footpath runs right past the pillar. We found the way onto the golf course OK as there was a footpath sign at the roadside, but we had to push our way through some vegetation to get onto the course. The footpath route wasn't signposted at all so we weaved our way around the greens, half expecting someone to shout at us for being on private property. Having found the trig, we then attempted to find our way out at the other end of the footpath. This was even worse as our way was blocked by a thicket of brambles and prickly bushed. I said we should go back to the road through the golf course's front gate - it wasn't much of a diversion - but Adam insisted on cutting his way through the brambles with a pair of nail scissors *rolls eyes*. I'm sure the golf course owners are being a bit naughty by letting the footpath get so overgrown, maybe an e-mail to the county council's public rights of way department is in order.
To finish, I'll leave you with the road sign of the week:
Whilst tidying up (which is amazing in itself) I found a booklet of circular walks in the local area that was published in 1978, with hand drawn maps. Some of the walks near the town centre wouldn't be so interesting nowadays due to the amount of house building that has gone on since 1978, but we thought we'd give one of the more countryfied ones a go to see if it still possible to make it around the route without needing an up to date map.
It seemed kind of weird going out for a walk in the countryside without a plastic box to look for, but there was a trig point near our route, so that was OK. Well, the result was - it is still possible to use the booklet (although we did have an OS map, just in case) and we saw some nice countryside we hadn't been to before. We even found ourselves walking through a field of asparagus!
Our diversion to find the trigpoint was fun. It was on a golf course but a public footpath runs right past the pillar. We found the way onto the golf course OK as there was a footpath sign at the roadside, but we had to push our way through some vegetation to get onto the course. The footpath route wasn't signposted at all so we weaved our way around the greens, half expecting someone to shout at us for being on private property. Having found the trig, we then attempted to find our way out at the other end of the footpath. This was even worse as our way was blocked by a thicket of brambles and prickly bushed. I said we should go back to the road through the golf course's front gate - it wasn't much of a diversion - but Adam insisted on cutting his way through the brambles with a pair of nail scissors *rolls eyes*. I'm sure the golf course owners are being a bit naughty by letting the footpath get so overgrown, maybe an e-mail to the county council's public rights of way department is in order.
To finish, I'll leave you with the road sign of the week:
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Don't let Gottlegog see the title!
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NigelH, at 3:10 pm
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