Country walking again....now the weather is improving!

The weather seems to be getting better, so Carla and I have started country walking at weekends again. Last weekend we went over to The Wrekin in Shropshire - an easy drive from here as its all via motorways, and there was little traffic about that Sunday. Starting the circular walk from the centre of the town of Wellington, our path took us through the lovely countryside to the East of the Wrekin (the route only marred by some horrid fly-tyipping on a country lane), then through the woods and up onto the summit where we had our packed lunch, then down the North and West side of the hill, then past two small reservoirs and onto the smaller hill, The Ercall, then back to Wellington. Nice walk of about four hours, featuring some lovely country views, and after that long winter it was great to get out and do a walk in fairly warm conditions.

<---- The view South from the summit of The Ercall: the summit of The Wrekin can been seen in the distance - we were there about 1 1/2 hours before!







Hopefully we'll be going somewhere nice tomorrow as well. We'll look through our walking guides and decide this evening.

...can't believe its been four months since I updated this blog! From now on, I hope to update it with every walk we do this summer, including our trip to the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. :)

I'm back!

Hello world!

At long last, we are back on-line here at Tate central. Yaaay! We got Sky satellite TV got installed a couple of weeks ago (oh, "Takeshi's Castle" on Challenge TV is fantastic!) and we are also now on Sky broadband. For some reason, my old account with Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange/Whatever_they_are_calling_themselves_this_month died in early April. So now we have a fab new Sky livebox flashing away in the corner, which provides us with a link to the outside world and the fun that is internet geekdom.

….now of course, I have to type something worth reading!

Well, I'll try and catch up somehow over the next few days. Loads to cover apart from our usual DVD and film watching, as we have just come back from holiday in Shropshire, where we did lots of hill walking in the beautiful countryside.

:)