The Wednesday Walk 11th April 2012

The Plan

A Dewlish walk

The Leader

Wendy

Who Turned Up
Wendy, Sue, Trudy H, Ros, Jackie, Beatrice and Tony H, David

The Walk
I’ve just been watching a three minute video of today’s walk. I’m sorry I can’t post it on the internet for you, but I’ll bring along a DVD next Wednesday for anyone who wants to take it away and scrutinise the walk in detail.
The walk nearly ended where it began. We parked at a road junction on the A354 alongside a lane which is rather oddly named Jock’s Hill (with not a kilt in sight). We then made our way along the road to the start of a properly signposted footpath… except that there was no footpath. The farmer had planted the entire field in rape and the path was obliterated. After some discussion we decided to drive to a different starting point. We returned to Milborne St Andrew, took the Dewlish road and parked alongside the start of a woodland path. This is a path we would have come to had the farmer permitted! The weather was cool but stayed dry as we crossed very pleasant countryside: woodland and open landscape. A few drops of rain started to fall just as we reached the pub. You can't get better timing than that.
After lunch we took a detour around Dewlish to make up for the miles we lost in the morning. Then we returned to our cars along the reverse of the morning’s walk. A very pleasant day despite the awkward start. We finished off with tea and cakes, for which we thank Beatrice and Tony.

The Pub
The Oak at Dewlish. The food was good and reasonably priced. They had no pies, but the faggots were very tasty. The only slight hitch was an imbalance in the delivery of the food to the table. Several walkers had finished eating before two of the ladies had started.

Next Week
Meet at Beatrice and Tony’s at 10am for a local walk