After the smashing weather on the Saturday, we went out locally the next day, from Monyash.
It was a much duller day ...
We managed to find a space in the small car park in the village and walked across the fields to Cross Lane. Natasha was deep in thought ...
I don't think there was anything on her mind in particular, it was just one of those days. She soon picked up when we got out Sainsbury's Fruit & Nut Mix ...
We then walked over a mile along Huttmoor Butts [which always sounds like a porn star for some reason].~ I know, you're shocked.
At the end of Huttmoor Butts, there's a donkey sanctuary at Newton Farm.
Even the donkeys seemed melancholy ...
We crossed the A515 by the Bull i' th' Thorn and crossed the field towards the High Peak Trail, walking up the side of the Trail ...
We turned right with a view to walking towards the Duke of York on the A515. Beside the Trail a bull was having a scratch against a farmgate ...
We then crossed the A515 near the Duke of York, another pub 'under new management', and walked across the fields towards Flagg. The path in the field before Pasture Barn had been ploughed up but it was good to see the farmer had restored the path by running his tractor across the field.
Many people think it strange, or indeed wrong, to walk across a field with a crop though if it's a field of grass [which can be a crop] it's okay. What many people forget is that the path has probably been there a damn site longer than the field ... and this from a farmer's son !
No sooner had we reached Flagg than we turned right away from it following the Limestone Way back to Monyash. On the way we passed Dalehouse Farm ...
It seems likely that it has been a few years since this was a farm ... or perhaps I'm doing them a disservice.
We turned right again, back along the road towards Monyash, passing the pinfold.
Then it was off to the Old Smithy for a cup of tea and a rather large and enjoyable bacon bap.
Date of walk ~ 13th September 2009
Length of walk ~ 5 1/2 miles.
Total since 1st September 2009 ~ 25 miles.
I don't think there was anything on her mind in particular, it was just one of those days. She soon picked up when we got out Sainsbury's Fruit & Nut Mix ...
We then walked over a mile along Huttmoor Butts [which always sounds like a porn star for some reason].~ I know, you're shocked.
At the end of Huttmoor Butts, there's a donkey sanctuary at Newton Farm.
Even the donkeys seemed melancholy ...
We crossed the A515 by the Bull i' th' Thorn and crossed the field towards the High Peak Trail, walking up the side of the Trail ...
We turned right with a view to walking towards the Duke of York on the A515. Beside the Trail a bull was having a scratch against a farmgate ...
We then crossed the A515 near the Duke of York, another pub 'under new management', and walked across the fields towards Flagg. The path in the field before Pasture Barn had been ploughed up but it was good to see the farmer had restored the path by running his tractor across the field.
Many people think it strange, or indeed wrong, to walk across a field with a crop though if it's a field of grass [which can be a crop] it's okay. What many people forget is that the path has probably been there a damn site longer than the field ... and this from a farmer's son !
No sooner had we reached Flagg than we turned right away from it following the Limestone Way back to Monyash. On the way we passed Dalehouse Farm ...
It seems likely that it has been a few years since this was a farm ... or perhaps I'm doing them a disservice.
We turned right again, back along the road towards Monyash, passing the pinfold.
Then it was off to the Old Smithy for a cup of tea and a rather large and enjoyable bacon bap.
Date of walk ~ 13th September 2009
Length of walk ~ 5 1/2 miles.
Total since 1st September 2009 ~ 25 miles.
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