The Wednesday Walk 21st January 2009

The Plan
Meet at Wendy's house at 10 am. We will be walking from the house to Upton Park.

The Leader
Wendy

Who Turned Up
Wendy, Ros, Sue and David

The Walk
We met at Wendy's house and left our cars there. The walk took us across Upton Heath along the old disused railway track. Along the way we met a lady who Sue remembered from her school days. She showed us a detour that gave us a longer walk across the heath. We didn't put on our walking boots at the start as we expected a reasonably easy walk. In the event it turned out somewhat wetter than we anticipated. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant woodland walk, made all the more enjoyable by being so close to home.

Tricia and Trudy joined us for lunch and did a short walk around the Upton House grounds afterwards. From there, three walkers set out on the route back past the Creekmoor Ponds (Sue took a lift with Tricia). We ended up with tea and biscuits at Wendy's house, again joined by Trudy, Tricia and Sue.

The Pub

Not a pub this week. We had lunch at the Peacock Restaurant at Upton House. Although the restaurant had no pies, we all enjoyed an inexpensive meal in pleasant surroundings. This restaurant deserves the good trade it gets because it employes disabled people. Maybe it was appropriate that we went went there: Wendy (with her injured wrist), Tricia (with her bad leg), Sue (with her broken arm), Trudy (with her gashed shin), David (with his sprained ankle) and Ros (who did a sterling job as the minder).