Five go to Cromford
17th July
First of all the important result of the photography competition... and the winner is:
A beautiful damsel fly captured (not literally!) by Helen J
Worthy Winner of the 2018 Annual Photogelly Competition.
Sadly Helen wasn't able to join us today so she will have to wait until next time to receive her prize!
Jo(working hard), Julia(living it up in Sicily) and Charlotte (having kittens) weren't able to join us either and Betty had decided that the day might involve too much sitting and chatting which she isn't very good at so she had stayed at home. As a result we were a very select bunch gathered together for coffee by the canal.
Pam is looking very pleased with her bookmark!
It was lovely to catch up on the progress science has made in the neutering of dogs and cats and it is always good to discuss the rising cost of funerals,the merits of different types of coffins and whether or not we should all be taking out funeral plans with good
friends!
Pam was only able to stay with us for coffee but it was lovely to see her even if it was a fleeting visit but I suppose you can't hang about when you are playing Russian roulette with car parking charges.
Lynn leads the way...
The four of us set off for a stroll along the towpath, admiring the flora and fauna and hoping that the grey clouds didn't mean that the weather was going to let us down - if it does rain we will blame the absence of a certain Helen J!
Some discussion about favourite bridges we have crossed over, under or just looked at - this one was on the list somewhere!
Lynn had to leave us after a while so then there were three.
We walked on to the junction and put our faith in Maggie who led us into the woods with a promise that she knew the way.
Our leader Maggie looking confident...
Our leader Maggie looking not quite so confident - just after Alison and I had said "It's a good job that Maggie knows the way"
With a little bit of back tracking and working out that if the path we needed to be on was below us then we needed to be walking down hill, we got back on track.
This is definitely the right way!
We headed back to the café for lunch still hoping that the grey clouds wouldn't amount to anything and luckily they didn't and that they would have something left for us to eat - which they did.
These are the birds that we could have seen
This is our bird list for the day:
Lots of mallards
Lots of geese
A blackbird
Some Moorhens
A lovely family of dabchicks (bird family of the day)
And we heard something in the woods that sounded rare and exotic.
I'm not sure that we were fully focussed! But a lovely day.
