GLW1803 : 47DON=70 + 1

Wednesday 18th April 2018

Happy birthday to me.  How to celebrate?  Normally the cherry blossom is out to help me.  Not this year.  Too wet and cold.  Today was supposed to be the day that England basked in sunshine.  Unfortunately Cumbria is no longer in England, or at least wasn't until late in the afternoon.

In January, GLW1801, I took Margaret on the first part of the big 47DON=70 walk- the Reston Scar section that she hadn't done.  Today, 47DON=70 + 1, it seemed appropriate to take her round the one other missing section.

We retraced January's steps from Staveley, up the valley and past the somewhat scruffy Scroggs Farm with its dilapidated buildings and pile of abandoned tyres.  Its redeeming feature was that, contrary to the blossom, the bluebells were making an early appearance.

From the road, the missing section headed over to Low Elfhow then up and across a couple of fields to the tumbledown buildings where the BOOTs had their lunch on 47DON=70 and where we had ours today.  

Our route back to Staveley took us along by Littlewood Farm (with its private graveyard and spanking new farmhouse), past Piked Howe (more dilapidated buildings) then down a pleasant old trail between gorse bushes to the minor roads that led back to Barley Bridge.

By now Cumbria was in sunshine.  It was a Happy Birthday, made even more so in the evening at Pedro's with Emma & co.

Don, Wednesday 18th April 2018

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