The Wednesday Walk 7th October 2009

The Plan
Meet at Beatrice and Tony's for a walk from Sturminster Newton to Hinton St Mary.

The Leader
Wendy

Who Turned Up
Wendy, Sue, Trisha, David

The Walk
The weather was forecast to turn wet so we cancelled plan A and met at David's for Plan B. We drove into West Moors and parked Sue's car in the car park as a guard against bad weather after lunch. Then we had coffee at the cafe in the main street. Finally, we drove back to the Inn on the Tin car park in Ferndown. The walk was no more than a mile through the woodland path into West Moors but, by then, it had started raining. Nothing difficult, but enough to deter us from a longer walk. There were no flowers of note, but we did see a large orange fungus that looked just right for a garden gnome to perch on.
After lunch we took the same route back, with just a short detour through Hatchard's Copse. Otherwise, we followed the Castleman Trailway back towards Dolman's Crossing. Once again it was raining, but at least it was a level walk which was in Sue's favour. She did well to complete both the morning and the afternoon jaunts. No photographs this week as we are missing both of our best photographers and the weather wasn't good enough for photography anyway - well, that's our excuse.

The Pub
The Tap and Railway in West Moors. This was our first taste of this particular pub and we were pleasantly surprised. They had a two meals for ten pounds deal which we all went for. The meals would have been classed as good had we paid full price for them. At the special deal price, we have to say they were excellent value. The pie was a "double" with chicken on one side and beef on the other and was excellent.