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This was Peter's walk of about 4 miles around Fittleworth, ending with an excellent lunch in the nearby Swan Inn. Many thanks to Paul and Peter for the additional photos.
Isabel's Long Walk through Kingley Vale was well worth waiting for! The countryside was showing some brilliant spring colours with bluebells, gorse and the ever present rape in the fields, as well as the ancient yew trees of Kingley Vale. Excellent lunch in the Hare and Hounds in Stoughton.
Celia and Miguel's Morning Walk proved very popular and was a splendid sunny day, with excellent views from the top of the Trundle as far as the Isle of Wight and Littlehampton to the South. We also had a new guest, Shirley who we hope enjoyed the walk, as well as newly enlisted Tuula and a host of more long time members out to enjoy the sunshine. Thanks to Barbara and Isabel for some excellent photographs.
Linda, Maddie and June led us up the hills to the Harting Downs on one of the nicest days of this year. As it was a figure of eight walk several additional walkers took advantage of the "short" walk in the morning. June got snappping again at cofffee time with some very good results. The highlight for many on the walk was the sight of a new born calf being cleaned up by its mother. It tried desperately to stand for the first time, watched by another young calf and several walkers - however, the walkers had a lunch to go to, so we moved on. The other calf was unlikely to be a twin as apparently twins are quite rare among cattle. Curiously if a heifer is born with a bull brother it is likely to be sterile (a freemartin) and the bull calf will usually be a poor performer in later life. Thanks Google.
It rained before and after the walk but Den's walk from Walderton stayed dry throughout. A walk up and down past Piglegged Row, then past Watergate House was followed by a great lunch at the Barley Mow in Walderton. The service there was exceptional and the 11 walkers had a great lunch.