BB2322 : Mostly Pleasant

Wednesday 26th July 2023

As you know, I like to find something of interest on our outings that I can weave into a theme for the report.  

Today I thought I might have found a theme.  Stan (with Pedro) and I had walked up from Sizergh Castle to meet Stuart at Helsington Church.  There in the road, in blue and red writing, was some graffiti that at the time I couldn’t make out but, thinking that it might lead to a theme for the walk, I took a picture of it for later examination then moved on to catch up with the others.  

That examination I have now done.  I can report that it surprised me.  It is probably the second weirdest piece of written graffiti that I have seen.  I won’t say any more about the first.  This was on not dissimilar lines and I shall say no more about this either other than it was childish and yet, in a strange way, sophisticated at the same time.  And, inevitably, anatomical.  I shall not be publishing the picture.  It is now raining and so it might well have passed into history, unless what I thought was chalk turns out to be something more permanent.  I hope not.  It’s not very pleasant.

So what else can I tell you that might make it worth your while reading on?

It was a pleasant day.  It was a pleasant stroll up to the Scout Scar trig point, arriving from the Warriner’s Wood side.  

The Mushroom was a pleasant stop for lunch.  

It was good to see that the signs depicting the hills have been restored.  

The view over to the Lakeland Fells was not as clear as we might have liked but pleasant none-the-less.

It was a pleasant continuation to the steep descent to Barrowfield where we said farewell to Stuart.  

It was then a pleasant stroll through the wood followed by a not so pleasant road slog back up to the church.  It concluded with a pleasant walk through the fields from which I could see our very pleasant house....

..... then back to Sizergh Castle and the car.

I don’t mean to damn it with faint praise.  We have covered this area so often that it is difficult to find anything new to say.  It’s a very pleasant area to walk.

Don, Wednesday 26th July 2023

Comments

Ian:  Sat in the Mushroom on Jubilee day in 1977. Repeated it with same friends on Jubilee day in 2022. It was pleasant both times.

Don:  How very pleasant to receive your contribution to the report.  Thank you.

Tony:  Pedro looks like Colin From Accounts!

Don:  I was going to say that I was not sure that was a pleasant comparison until I realised you meant the dog in the TV programme, not the guy at the place where we both once worked!

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STATISTICS

BB2322 : Mostly Pleasant

Date:

Wednesday 26th July 2023

Features:

Scout Scar

Distance in miles:

7.5

Height climbed in feet:

1,025

GPX track:

BB2322.GPX

Comitibus:

Don, Stan (+ Pedro), Stuart

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