I had arranged to meet a guy in a nearby village who was setting up a walking group, so that was the initial plan for walking for the day. It was extremely misty so there wasn’t really much point with bothering with the camera. We did a pleasant enough little three 3km road loop in a little over half an hour.

When we got back, I decided to drag the children out for another walk as they wouldn’t have had any exercise over the weekend. So it was up to the forest loop for us.

It really was very misty but pleasant enough besides that. You can hear the faintest signs of life coming back to the forest – there are a lot more birds singing and quite a bit of rustling going on in various undergrowth. The gorse is beginning to come properly into flower.

We made reasonable progress around the loop and when we got done the mist was beginning to life. This year has been very strange for holly as there are still plenty of berries on the trees even though they would normally be gone a couple of weeks before Christmas.

I’ll call the two walks at 3km and 4.5 km each

133km