What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!

littleme

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staffordjas said:
I could get there with my eyes closed , been so many times. As for giving you directions I'd get you so horribly lost trying to describe the route 😂
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I've been lots of times as a kid, but could not find the way as a grown adult.... The carer claimed to know, but we ended up in caterpillar field, then Pine Forrest....way away from any paths.. only my sense of direction got us back to the rd..we'd gone miles away and had tomfollow the rd back to the car park
 
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littleme said:
We've tried to find stepping stones several times, last time we ended up in a field full of yellow & black caterpillars, totally disoriented, ABC not realising the field (long grass) was also full of resting dear who were startled by a drone & nearly trampled us in their fright.
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A field full of yellow & black caterpillars, of the Cinnabar moth, is probably full of ragwort which is likely to be harmful to the deer.
 
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littleme said:
We've tried to find stepping stones several times, last time we ended up in a field full of yellow & black caterpillars, totally disoriented, ABC not realising the field (long grass) was also full of resting dear who were startled by a drone & nearly trampled us in their fright. I found the way back to the main road, ignoring the carer as he has no sense of direction, and we eventually found the car.

Anyone got fool proof walking directions, he plans a walk on Tuesday.. (don't worry I'll pack a flask, sarnies, and have my3words installed).

Ta.
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The stepping stones are quite easy to find. They're here and the route is from Punchbowl car park but you could park off Camp Road and drop down to the river in Sherbrook Valley then turn left and follow the river.

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Gramaisc

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Thehooperman said:
The stepping stones are quite easy to find. They're here and the route is from Punchbowl car park but you could park off Camp Road and drop down to the river in Sherbrook Valley then turn left and follow the river.

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My approach was from Seven Springs - the far side, but just as easy to get to for me, with the current, on-going urban traffic chaos.
 
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Mudgie said:
A field full of yellow & black caterpillars, of the Cinnabar moth, is probably full of ragwort which is likely to be harmful to the deer.
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The dear weren't in the field of caterpillars, they were in another field type thing with tall grass & small trees, very well hidden till they stood up...
 
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Mudgie said:
A field full of yellow & black caterpillars, of the Cinnabar moth, is probably full of ragwort which is likely to be harmful to the deer.
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As with other grazing animals, deer won't bother with live ragwort. The problem comes if it's cut, dried and mixed in with hay, when the animals can't spot it so easily.
 
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Gramaisc said:
My approach was from Seven Springs - the far side, but just as easy to get to for me, with the current, on-going urban traffic chaos.
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There were about twenty people and several dogs at the stepping stones early this afternoon.
My approach was from the Barley Mow and along the military railway track before turning left at the Coppice Hill car park and down through Brocton Coppice, and returning westwards then northwards to the Barley Mow, a pleasant stroll that takes about ninety minutes at my age.
 
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Mudgie said:
There were about twenty people and several dogs at the stepping stones early this afternoon.
My approach was from the Barley Mow and along the military railway track before turning left at the Coppice Hill car park and down through Brocton Coppice, and returning westwards then northwards to the Barley Mow, a pleasant stroll that takes about ninety minutes at my age.
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I did the Fairoak Pools from Moors Gorse the other day - it's all grown up a lot since I was last there, in the last century.

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staffordjas

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Mudgie said:
There were about twenty people and several dogs at the stepping stones early this afternoon.
My approach was from the Barley Mow and along the military railway track before turning left at the Coppice Hill car park and down through Brocton Coppice, and returning westwards then northwards to the Barley Mow, a pleasant stroll that takes about ninety minutes at my age.
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That's the way I'd have described it, up the cutting , then left &;right
 
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Trumpet said:
I remember my mum dad having several very similar ones. Makes me wonder what happened to them.
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Those ones came from Kenya in 1966.

My Dad was in Aden for a year and had a few weeks R&R in Kenya.

The doctor in Ireland brought a Saudi student with him on a visit a few years back and he told her "Oh, I was in Yemen for a year once" - I could see that she thought this seemed a bit unlikely, but I didn't get the chance to explain that it was true...
 
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The regular walking group wasn't in action today, due to a big sporting event that many people are invested in.*

So, four of us set out on a reconnaissance mission that went quite well.

We found a monument in a fairly remote location.

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We then found our way back round to where the cars had been left - about eight miles in all.

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Many waterfalls turned a small stream into a decent river by the time we got back to the bottom of the valley.

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* The girls won, so it won't be safe to go out tonight.
 
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