Honestly. The weather up North has been decent. You’d expect nothing less from me. No-one else seemed interested in my Latest Lockdown (3) Walk to the Wardsend Cemetery on the Owlerton Industrial Estate, which should tell you a lot. My first venture into industrial Hillsborough, where views of the Don are vanishingly rare. I’ve only… Continue reading ANOTHER SUNNY DAY, SO I’LL MEET YOU AT THE CEMETERY GATES
Tag: Lockdown walks
DOWN TO THE RIVER CAM
My daily routine for the blog seems to be one post dredged up from the archives, one from the day’s exciting walk in Cambridgeshire. Yesterday’s excursion to Sheffield was one of the easiest drives I’ve had in many years, but I still felt exhausted last night. Inactivity is the real killer. Today Mrs RM sought… Continue reading DOWN TO THE RIVER CAM
NEWNHAM – ALL COWS, NO BULL
Back from Southend 1964 to Cambridge 2020, and my daily 59:30 minute walk round the University playing fields of Newnham, Grantchester‘s cheaper but no less proper sister. This was a pleasing walk, not because it’s exciting, but because it’s new. 20 minutes through the rapefields, a view to nothingness but a gorgeous smell and only… Continue reading NEWNHAM – ALL COWS, NO BULL
A CHESTERTON CLOSED PUB CRAWL
More highlights from my post-shop wander along the quaint cobbled streets of North Cambridge, taking in the only actual “High Street” in the city. Who knows how many of the eight pubs and bars along the 0.8 mile route will survive the Lockdown. Mark C will recall I did this walk, in reverse, in 2015… Continue reading A CHESTERTON CLOSED PUB CRAWL
THE CHITTERING CLASSES
A short break from the archives, as I bring you today’s 59 minutes exploration of Chittering, a hamlet within Greater Waterbeach. What I’m really looking for in this post is your sympathy as you see what desperately meagre material I have to work with on my doorstep. Full disclosure – I drove the mile to… Continue reading THE CHITTERING CLASSES
COTTENHAM CALLING
This raiding of the archives is fine, but it’s no substitute for the permanent exploration I was doing ’till a month ago. Frankly, much as I miss the pubs, I’d give anything just to walk round a new village near Maidenhead. Preferably one with an open Chinese takeaway, mind. Next door village Cottenham will just have… Continue reading COTTENHAM CALLING
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