A Snowy Walk

"It's snowing! When can we go for a walk?", says Little W. "Right now!", I reply. So we all got wrapped up and headed off into the snow. It was still quite early and not many cars had been along Mount Rd.

It was coming down nice and steadily. We had nearly got to the Flying Fortress and Little W said "Can we go back now?".

With the addition of my scarf to keep his chin warm and sorting out his socks in his boots, we were able to go on.

In the fields we could see the hares haring about against the snow. "Let's go down this lane", said The Missus - just past the Flying Fortress we crossed Mount Rd and followed the lane to the railway. The level crossing is closed, but you can cross on foot. At the right hand bend we stopped. Right or Left? Well if we followed the road round I knew we would end up at Shinham Bridge cottages. So we went the other way along the bridleway to see where it took us. We found these rather sorry looking daffodils in the hedgerow along the way.

To avoid walking a long 200yards of the A143 we ended up doing a few yards through the long grass. "The snow is getting in my boots, Dad", said Little W.

But then we didn't have far to go - we were at the railway bridge at the bottom of Ortewell Rd, so it was just a matter of traipsing up the hill and round the corner to get back to where we started...

An excellent snowy walk. And then it was onto making the snowmen.