So, here we are. The night before the annual Shakespeare Stroll. My walking bag is loaded with waterproofs, water, first aid kit – and hip flask. The weather is set fine and we will be setting of tomorrow morning from St Nicholas’ Church, Alcester. However, some wonderful people have already begun to support the appealContinue reading “The Eve of The Shakespeare Stroll”
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Shakespeare Stroll 2022 Route Plan
Shakespeare Stroll 2022 Route Plan Day One 17 Sep. Route starts St Nicholas Church @ 10.00. Exit town via Allimore and Cold Comfort Lanes. Through fields and over/through the ford. Continue to @Millennium Way. Follow to Coughton. At main road turn left to Thro0ckmorton Arms. Afternoon. Retrace steps to cross roads. Turn left onto Coughton Fields Lane. Continue to Church Farm then follow footpathContinue reading “Shakespeare Stroll 2022 Route Plan”
Return of The Shakespeare Stroll
I do have to confess I find it very hard to walk when it is hot so, looking out of my Hermit’s Cave I am pleased to see changes afoot in the countryside beyond my Exercise Yard. The blistering summer heat is subsiding. We are promised some rain too. In fact I see it fallingContinue reading “Return of The Shakespeare Stroll”
The Hermit Returns
I’m standing at The Alcester Trig point watching the drizzle roll in from the north. Visibility is not good and I am extremely pleased I packed my spare waterproof jacket. My Facebook followers will know that The Hermit broke free this year and I have been travelling around Europe for the past seven weeks or so. ButContinue reading “The Hermit Returns”
That’s All Folks – March The Month 31
So this is it. Finally, the last of 31 walks to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK and the work they do to research into a disease that affects one in eight men, killing 11000 a year. I, among many others throughout the country, have been pacing 11000 steps a day, a total of 341,000Continue reading “That’s All Folks – March The Month 31”
March The Month – 21
This was a beautiful but familiar walk for me. The route took me across the Exercise Yard exiting through the Oversley portal, the footbridge over the river. Then along the lane and left onto Icknield Way. A few hundred yards then left uphill towards the crest of Oversley Hill. The sun shone. Truly the firstContinue reading “March The Month – 21”
March The Month 18
On Friday I walked with SHWF. We walked from Bourton on the Hill following a circuitous route bringing us back past Sezincote House, apparently the model for The Brighton Pavilion. The route brought us back along The Heart of England way which was boggy in places. So much so I detoured through some brambles. NotContinue reading “March The Month 18”
March The Month – 11
This is probably one of my favourite walks, certainly locally. Depart from The Hermit’s Cave, across The Exercise Yard departing through the Cold Comfort portal. Then up through Coldcomfort Wood; across the fields and then following then fording The Spittal Brook and then return. Wild flowers can be seen and birds watched in almost totalContinue reading “March The Month – 11”
March the Month 7
And Bill said those beautiful words. “I have some coffee”. So now we are gathered around a bench next to a track in Oversley Wood. There has been logging and I can smell the resin from the newly logged trees. Warming my hands on my coffee, I look up. “Are those Buzzards?” I can neverContinue reading “March the Month 7”
March The Month – 3
Aches and pains are beginning to make themselves known. Although now testing negative, Covid has been replaced by a sore hip. So that had a gloop of Voltarol spread over it to get me moving. I also had to pay a quick visit to my slightly-under-the-weather grand daughter. Stuck at home on World Book DayContinue reading “March The Month – 3”
The Hermit's Cave 