I found out today why we usually go out walking in the morning at this time of year. We parked in Warnford and were aiming to complete a three mile circuit of about fourteen geocaches. Little did we know that the first few would be tricky little numbers that proved difficult to find but we are not quitters and find them we did! Once we were in the mindset of the person that set the series we found life a bit easier (despite the clues being of no use whatsoever - in fact once we had found the caches, the clues still didn't make sense!) We were surprised that we managed to find all fourteen especially as at the last two or three we were under pressure from the fading light and by the time we got back to the car it was quite dark and there was rain in the air.
Opposite where we parked there was a field of watercress which smelt a bit odd!
One advantage of the trees and bushes losing their leaves is that little gems like this birds nest are easier to spot. This one is very close to a barbed wire fence (see bottom of pic) a bit dodgy I would have thought!
Old man's beard and mud!
More mud - this is the footpath!
I wore my wellies, luckily, for this walk - great for keeping my feet dry, not quite so good in sloppy slippery mud as they don't have a great tread and I was doing my best dancing on ice impressions along a lot of it!
In the fading light we came across this perfect thatched cottage in Warnford.
One other highlight of the walk was a deer pronking (I love that word, it's so apt) very elegantly through a field of young veg plants.
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