Tag: shovell

• The Ridgeway: Ivinghoe Beacon

  

  In which we take an ice white walk through the woods to start the Ridgeway, and find golden nymphs dancing in the trees on Britain’s oldest trail.

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  January 3, 2023

  chilterns, Hertfordshire, Ridgeway, trig, Walk

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• The Isis (Thames), The Cherwell and The Oxford Canal

  

  In which I ramble along the river past the dreaming spires and end up two feet deep in it

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  December 15, 2022

  chilterns, Oxford, Oxfordshire

  Autumn, by train, canal, chilterns, city, dog, hike, hiker, hikes, hikes near me, Hiking, london, national trail, rambling, river, riverside, shovell, urban, Walk, walker, Walking, Walks, walks near me

• The Norber Erratics

  

  In which we climb a hill and wander with a herd of prehistoric beasts, a praying rabbit and a dog on a toadstool

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  December 4, 2022

  austwick, dales, malham, settle, Walk, Yorkshire

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• Northumberland, Low Newton to Craster

  

  In which we follow the waft of kippers to Craster and find our car at the end of a rainbow

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  November 19, 2022

  coast, coastal, northumberland, Walk

  Autumn, circular, coast, coast path, coastal, craster, dog, england coast path, hike, hiker, hikes, hikes near me, Hiking, low newton, Mental health, northumberland, pub, pubs, rambling, sea, shovell, Walk, walker, Walking, Walks, walks near me

• London: The Parkland Walk

  

  In which I am surrounded by superstition on an invisible railway: fairies in the bushes, and an abandoned station waiting for a train that will never come.

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  October 31, 2022

  city, london, Walk

  Alexandra palace, archway, by train, crouch hill, dog, harringay, Highgate, highgate wood, hike, hiker, hikes, hikes near me, Hiking, Islington, linear, london, nature reserve, north, queens wood, railway, rambling, shovell, underground, urban, Walk, walker, Walking, Walks, walks near me, wild service tree, wood

• Chilterns: Chorleywood to Chesham

  

  In which we celebrate UK Fungus Day by getting sprayed with pesticides and have a moot on a possible moot hill

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  October 19, 2022

  Buckinghamshire, chilterns, Hertfordshire, Walk

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• The New Forest: Ivy Wood & Perrywood

  

  In which I ramble around the woodlands looking for pigs, but have to make do with a Martian invader.

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  October 10, 2022

  brockenhurst, Hampshire, New Forest, Walk

  Autumn, brockenhurst, bronze age, by train, circular, dog, Hampshire, hike, hiker, hikes, hikes near me, Hiking, Mental health, mushrooms, New Forest, new forest national park, rambling, shovell, Walk, walker, Walking, Walks, walks near me, wellbeing, wildlife, wood

• Brockenhurst, New Forest: Trolls, Trees and Orchids

  

  In which I get up ridiculously early and get a mackerel sky, plenty of deer and a whiff of a troll.

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  October 4, 2022

  brockenhurst, Hampshire, New Forest, Walk

  Autumn, by train, circular, dog, Fall, Hampshire, hike, hiker, hikes, hikes near me, Hiking, moor, rambling, shovell, Walk, walker, Walking, Walks, walks near me, wellbeing, wood

• Pilgrims’ Way: Guildford to Gomshall

  

  Stage 5a of the Pilgrims’ Way in which I fail to find a dragon’s cave and fail to find hospitality in a quintessentially expensive Surrey village

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  October 1, 2022

  Pilgrims way, Surrey, Walk

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• Brockenhurst, New Forest: Wilverley Plain

  

  In which we meet wildlife, discover the ancient sport of squoyling and play ice cream jeopardy

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  September 28, 2022

  brockenhurst, Hampshire, New Forest, Walk

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