I
have been upping my walking distance recently, from the usual 3 miles
to 5 or 6. I have to say, though my legs are glad to stop, I have
enjoyed myself so much and after a rest, am raring to go and do
another (shorter) walk. On Friday I looked at our local map and
decided to go exploring on a nice downhill (most of the way) ramble
which would take me from near Horeb to home, but exploring a lane the
other side of the main Brechfa road.
K
had work to get on with, so I told him to drop me off a little early,
just short of the crossroads, so I could take a couple of photos of
the start of the walk. I began to walk, remembering that I had to
ignore the first “road” on my left, as that led to a farm. So I
kept on walking, and walking and after half an hour I was beginning
to wonder if I had imagined the 2nd
road. Beyond a farm, I saw the muddy wide farm track I planned to
explore when I had my horse Fahly, but no sign of the turning I
wanted. Rather than carry on and make a long walk into a hike into
the hills, I decided that it would be sensible to turn back and head
for home. So I went back down the steep hill I had climbed, and
climbed the steep hill I had come down from where K had dropped me
off, and kept climbing as it was a looooooooong steep hill. My legs
were beginning to ache when I reached the top but then it was
downhill or on flat bits all the way back to our big steep hill. It
was about 6 miles in all.
When
I got home I checked the map, and found out that between where I
stopped walking and the muddy wide farm track, was the turning I
needed, but it must have been set back a bit as it looked like the
bank bordering the road just carried on. Ah well, another day, when
the sun is out, and I shall get K to drop me off right by the start
of it.
Since
then I have done two more long walks of about 5 miles each, one with
the camera (today) and one without (yesterday, when I did the
bridleway walk). Today's walk was down by the TB stud and around a
loop and down a steep hill (didn't want to push myself too much with
the hills). The weather has been SO beautiful, sunny and once the
frost had melted, warm too.
We
went to the car boot sale first thing (the first one we've been to
this year), and got a couple of things, including a little beaten-up
mahogany footstool which needed recovering, so I have been working on
that today. I also got out in the garden but the digging I started
was just too heavy as the soil is still pretty wet and as it was
grass tussocks I was trying to shift, it was too big an ask. I shall
have to get D (son) to give me a hand as K is laid up with his hips
and his shoulder (result of doing the shower room for me).
The
Fitbit steps are doing VERY well – I have achieved 21,192 so far
today, and overall for the week, 106,746 steps!
The view looking South.
View S-W across the Brechfa road.
Lleche Cist - noted in one of my books as a stone row, but possibly a small stone circle, as there is supposedly another stone nearby.
Looking N towards Llanllwni Mountain.
I managed to catch this lamb at just the right moment.
The wilderness at the side of the road. Very poor quality land, sour and only good for wildlife.
Llanllwni Mountain and Brechfa Forest in the distance.
A determined lamb about to have a feed.
The view in front of me as I headed home.
