Meldreth circular walk
Many thanks to Geoff Jones for sending me this fabulous EveryTrail link for a walk we did yesterday with Sally and the Cambridge Rambling Club. I did try to make my excuses the 
day before – too many jobs to catch up on in the house, etc – but Geoff was having none of it and called me to say he expected to see me there. So I demured.
Actually, I needed to give my new pink-fleeced lined jacket an airing which I had bought in the Christmas sales. And, of course, I enjoyed it once I was out there hopping over endless stiles. A pity the sun never really came out.
As Geoff says, it was a bit on the slow side. But I still somehow ended up with blisters, and left the group after three hours during the pub break to complete the rest of the 10 mile walk. I couldn’t work out why we had only covered six miles in that time as I normally walk 2 1/2 – 3 miles to the hour, but we did stop off and linger for a while to admire a beautiful snowdrop garden en route.
I did enjoy catching up with an old friend from the school-gate days, Sarah Bailey Mappledoram, (pic right) who is in training for an impressive fundraising walk along the Great Wall of China. I am such a novice in comparison and in total awe.
Geoff did try to coax me to join her, and that certainly would be a wonderful achievement. One day…
Btw Geoff, isn’t it time you designed a beautiful new website for the rambling club? Its newsletter style doesn’t do it justice. And, where did you get that hat!!
Shame you missed the second half of the walk as you would have really enjoyed fowlmere nature reserve.
BTW its Sarah Mappledoram and her surviving cancer story can be read here http://www.sarahsgreatwalk.co.uk/sarahsgreatwalk.co.uk/Welcome.html
Hi Sally, Yes, I’m sorry I missed it too, and I did have my binoculars with me.
Thanks for the link about Sarah. Her married name was Bailey. I will correct it.
It sounds like great fun 🙂 and I love your new coat.
Ellee I also forgot to say that I too think it would be a good idea for Geoff to do the Cambridge rambling club a nice new web site 🙂
Sally, I think it could be wonderful, and they could have the best site in the country with Geoff’s help and an Everytrail link of their walks every week. However, the group would need to regularly update the site themselves. And the walk’s leader yesterday told me she didn’t have a mobile phone!