After meeting at Cosby Village Hall, 10.30am as normal, we set off for Dunton Bassett, having arranged with other walkers to rendezvous at Dunton Church.
What a brilliant walking day, very chilly but bright.
At Dunton when everybody had finished booting up we started our walk to Ashby Parva.
For info:
The village has one pub (the Dunton Bassett Arms), a primary school, village hall and a combined village shop / post office. The village hall was donated to the village by Orson Wright, a successful Leicester builder who had been born in the village.
Out through Dunton towards Leire bearing left at the end of the village towards Ashby Parva.
Cameras at the ready we headed out into the open countryside.
A bit of info.
Winter feed - 'Feed hay in small amounts or in a feeder to minimise waste. When fed a limited amount of hay at a time, cattle have less opportunity to trample and soil the hay.' This farmer is obviously watching the pennies.
The others have joined in to make sure they get their fair share.
Bare branches and clear blue - wow!
How did he get so far behind?
Renewable energy at work.
Nearly into Ashby Parva.
Our destination, the Holly Bush in Ashby.
A roaring fire - what a fantastic welcome.
Drinks ordered, we settled down for a chat and a warm.
Bananas !!
The coffee here needs a mention - served in glasses with a minty chocolate.
Plotting the next shot.
Well we all enjoyed our break at the Hollybush, but it needs to be said we do enjoy our walking too.
Machined 'hay eggs' awaiting collection.
And more.
Around the corner and back into Dunton with its 'chocolate box' thatched cottages.
A cracking walk, fingers crossed the weather is the same next week.
No comments:
Post a Comment