This is where I sat eating my car picnic today - up on the Eppynt range, looking roughly in a Southerly direction. This is an Army range and was - like the little Dorset village of Tyneham - taken over by the Army during WWII and never handed back . . . The little squares of fir trees are to help troops find cover when on exercise up there - as in military manouevres. Red Flag flying today so they will be up there practicing with live ammo.
Having been told that we were meant to have internet restored yesterday a.m. (and then weren't) and given a "by Monday afternoon" date when I chased it up, I expected to have the weekend still quiet and lonely here. I was delighted to find a new pole was being put in when I got back to our track. I couldn't pass them so parked the car up. When I went down a little later, blimey, Openreach were there, and putting all the wires up again. Finally got Internet back about an hour ago, and what a relief it is. Life here is very quiet without the interaction with the outside world.
Now I have over 100 emails to deal with (in the morning) and I need to catch up on blogs too. I have a freezing cold walk on Kinder Scout on Youtube, in the background, and it is so good to have a break from the silence of the past week.
Back in the morning.
Someone's getting very steady on her feet! Doesn't she just wish she could run about and cause mischief :)
