An unexpected pleasure! Not the route – I’ve been coming out to Humberston for years, I’ve even walked it around this time of year before with my dad one Christmas – but the weather! So much for all those fog warnings!
We woke up to clear blue skies, so we just had to take advantage.
All the hits today! It started off still a little misty, but as the sun came through, it was a bright, if bracing, day for a bit of hometown tourism!
And yes, of course, Steep Hill was on today’s agenda! Can’t call yourself a walker if you haven’t walked up Steep Hill!
‘Every little helps’ – other supermarket slogans are available, of course. However, very few of those are within walking distance of home!
Today, I did the Tesco run. On foot. In the wet.
It’s not all bad news though!
Ever since the start of this walking challenge, people have been saying ‘you should go to Chambers Woods’.
So today we did!
Adventures in walking were somewhat curtailed on Monday as Andy grumped around at home, waiting for a previously unexpected parcel to be delivered whilst attempting to deal with a minor plumbing emergency!
I got out the house while the going was good!
By Thursday I was in to my third week of walks and well on track to hit my 100 mile goal, so given the dodgy weather forecast, I scheduled myself a rest day!
‘Rest’, when you’ve two young girls, is a relative term – there was still the food shopping to do, give the vacuum another run out – all that kind of fun stuff!
Week three was supposed to begin with just a quick tip-toe around somewhere local, after yesterday’s extended exertions in big boots and muddy fields!
You know when you have a good idea? You know when you start out on that really good idea? You know when you’re too far gone on that good idea to give up on it?
You know when you realise it wasn’t that good an idea?
Yeah. That was today!
Like yesterday’s route, today’s involved wandering over an area of Lincoln I’ve seen many times from the car windows, but have never actually set foot on before.
Andy reckons that ‘finding somewhere sensible to park in Nettleham’ should’ve been the final round on ‘The Krypton Factor’ – one for the kids, there!
Today’s venture out on foot was quite the endurance round too, if not quite as crazy as the assault course they used to have on the TV show!
To say today’s weather was ‘changeable’ would be an understatement! Dark and moody clouds and lashings of rain this morning, then glorious sunshine!
That wind was kicking up fierce mind! Luckily, Friesthorpe is in a nice shielded little spot!
Eurgh! Rain! I’ve been lucky up until now, with most of the showers in the last week happening over night and the days being nice and dry (even if they weren’t always the sunniest).
Flying solo! Andy went to do the grocery shop at Tesco and ejected me from the car en route!
(Un)fortunately for him, I found my way home again! Nearly beat him (back home) too!
I’ve been coming to Hubbard’s Hills since I was little. I don’t remember worrying about slipping from the top walk this much before though – the innocence of youth!
…three more weeks to go! Looks like I’m on target!
Thankfully, hubby hasn’t slowed me down too much with all his photography, and I’m making good progress towards my goal.
Whisby Nature Park was a great escape when we just had to get out of the house during the summer.
With no kids alongside us for a change, this was a very pleasant stroll – we do miss them, honest!
We used to take the girls here fairly regularly before they started school – usually in the summer when ice-creams were an option, mind you! We still found some treats though!
Three villages for the price of one great big loop!
Out of Faldingworth, in to neighbouring Buslingthorpe before wandering by the side of the fields til we got to Friesthorpe then back up to home!
The girls came out with mummy on Sunday!
A few laps of the playing field while the girls got to ride bikes and play in the park.
My two girls were home from school, so it was a matter of cramming in what I could on this first weekend.
North-south jaunt in the morning, followed up by another trip ‘out west’ in the afternoon.
Just another run out down Spridlington Road, but it was a crisp and bright morning. great for photos!
Some frosted spider webs, some bright foliage, and some huge fungi that had sprung up out of nowhere round by school!
The longest journeys begin with but a single step… and a month of daily walks begins with a quick stride around and through the village.
Looping round the north of the village, checking in on the kids in the school playground before heading out towards Spridlington before quickly doubling back home for a cup of tea!