What a week, thought we would show some of the many pictures of the floods that were happening in our area over the last couple of days.
With all that in mind we set off for our walk. We elected to go south, down to Draycote Water Reservoir. Reports of flooding in that area did not seem so bad.
Unfortunately, some of our party of walkers did experience some floods on the way to Draycote and wisely decided to return back to home turf to do their own walk.
Those who arrived at the village of Thurlaston for Draycote were greeted with a cold damp day but it wan't raining.
We did this walk the same time last year, and we'd found that the villagers had left cakes for sale in aid of Children in Need undercover in the bus shelter. We had hoped, but no such luck this year!
Setting off we passed the village hall, where there was a sign saying they were serving coffee and cakes. This was noted just in case we had to turn back if there was flooding on our way around the reservoir.
The place we thought that we might have had a problem was clear of water and the path through, though muddy, was just pretty much the same as usual.
Seat with a view.
Stepping out and setting a good pace among the Autumn colours.
A fisherman oblivious to the rest of the world.
We came across some Severn Trent rangers planting a memorial tree. We had just passed the tree planting and turned to walk across the dam wall at the bottom of the reservoir when one of our walkers fell awkwardly damaging her ankle. One of the rangers, a first aider, came to the rescue with a soothing ice pack. Smiling through the pain our walker thought that she could walk on it but for only a short distance. The rangers offered help in getting her and her husband back to the nearest access to their car which left them a short walk about 200 yards.
All smiles while ice is applied to take the swelling down.
Assured that everything would be okay, the rest of our walkers continued around the reservoir to the Visitor Centre where our injured walker and her husband would join us.
The stream that runs away from the reservoir, normally a babbling brook, but not today, it looks like a river.
The front part of the group just visible near to the end of the dam wall walk.
Into the Visitor Centre cafe where we met up with our friends, and apart from a painful ankle, everything seemed okay. We wished them well and a speedy recovery.
We parted ways and started on the last leg of our walk.
Not the usual crowds walking today, only a few people here and there.
Somebody getting ready for the winter snow?
Nearly back at the start of our walk - we can see Thurlaston on the other side of the reservoir.
Alpacas taking five.
Not far now.
Back into the chocolate box village to the cars and a change of boots into comfy shoes then back home.
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