The Wednesday Walk 31st October 2012

The Plan
Delph Woods to Lamb’s Green

The Leader

A shared role

Who Turned Up

Wendy, Ros, Sue, Trisha, Marion (welcome back, Marion) Beatrice and Tony H, Trudy H, David

The Walk

The forecasters promised us a dry morning and wet afternoon. Well, they got the second bit right. In fact we had a wet morning as well. But we don’t let a spot of rain get us down-hearted, do we ladies and gents? (Answers on a postcard) We met at Delph Woods and relocated two cars to The Lamb’s Green before we donned our boots and wet weather gear. Then we set off through the woods. The ground underfoot turned wet, boggy and, at times, redolent of the Great Grimpen Mire. Thankfully, no one was drawn into the swamp, never to be seen again. We counted them all out and we counted them all in at the end of the day.
We took the usual route across country until we hit the Higher Blandford Road, then cut off towards Ashington. On the way we passed the sign for Happy Bottom. Did you know that findmypast.co.uk has compiled a list of Britain’s most unfortunate place names? The list is headed by Shitterton (near Dorchester) and includes Scratchy Bottom (near Durdle Door) and Happy Bottom (near Ashington). We seem to have a lot of Bottoms in Dorset.
After a lazy lunch we emerged from the pub into another downpour and decided to curtail the afternoon walk. Thanks to Trisha and Tony for talking us back to our cars. Thanks also to Trudy H for sharing her rose hip jam, a product stemming from last week’s walk.

The Pub

The Lamb’s Green. Wednesday is their Traditional Pie day and Marion was persuaded to try a traditional English pie. She survived. Meantime we polished off a number of crosswords while we waited to see how the afternoon weather would turn out.