Sunday, 11 November 2012

Grafham Water, 11 November 2012

Better than poppies...

Our third amble around this reservoir provided the welcome opportunity to surround a lot of water rather than being surrounded by it, and indeed it was a far less muddy experience than last week’s scenic adventure.  


The sun was shining so powerfully that it was more than one of us in a t-shirt today, then it was hats-off as we got to a churchyard bang on time for the 11 o’clock two minutes’ silence.  Respects paid, off we strode through some properly autumnal woods until we found a fine picnic spot with a view of the water for the walkers and one slightly sweaty Reservoir Dog.  The field we chose was covered in fresh spider’s webs as far as the eye could see, but no arachnids were reported in the sandwiches.
The picic site where arachnophobes fear to tread. 
A welcome pub stop for beer in Perry (next time we’re down on the south coast, we’re going to attempt to buy perry in Beer), and the traditional amble along the dam wall, as featured on the front cover of OSB#9 (you’d spotted that, of course, right?), and home relaxed and remarkably warm.  Not bad for November!

Hmm, this looks familiar.

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