Friday.1st March 2013 Leire to Broughton Astley 6 miles.

Stemborough Lane

 20 walkers met at Cosby Village Hall car park and the route suggested was from Leire to Broughton Astley . We parked at the playing fields at Leire, walked along Main Street to Stemborough Lane and out of Leire taking to the fields at the mill and walked to Broughton over a couple of fields. This was a good test after all the wet weather.

First muddy encounter

          
Three 'patches' of muddy areas  were encountered all passable with care. We  hope for  drier weather in the future weeks to enable a slow return to bridle paths and fields. A little competition was discussed on the walk "photo's of headgear" so a photo will appear each week which will be up for discussion the following walk.

"That was a bit HIGH"

"We had our Christmas lunch here last December"

The route through the estate at Broughton to the Bull's Head completely bamboozled some of the walkers. 

 Staff at the Bull's Head made us very welcome and a comfortable half hour with coffee and tea soon had us ready for the return journey.

Beware we are after your hats

         
Roll on next week.