31/12/2020 and I decided to get out for a last walk of the year.
This year I've done more walking than any other but most of it has been one of 3 loops from our house. I decided to do the shortest one again today and anyone who read my reports earlier in the year will see things that they recognise but now colder and muddier.
It was a bitterly cold morning and I wrapped up against the elements.
I've walked past these hedgerows when they were white with hawthorn blossom but now it is haw frost
The lake was frozen in Trent Park country park
The obolisque
It feels like ages since these bleak fields were bright with rape
Firs Wood was a bit damp I was caught between the very opposite of a rock and a hard place. In the end I, with difficulty, negotiated the rusty barbed wire fence to get to the slightly drier ground to my left. 2 kids is enough.
The tunnel hedge as I think Mel called it in one of my trip reports in the spring.
A lot of the paths heading back are hemmed in by two hedges or hedges and fences so there is no where to go but straight through the mud.
About 11 miles and my new boots have been well and truly christened.