&c… You get the general idea…
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A theme emerges…
Bit of weather on the way (2nd pub of the afternoon):
Recently vacated pub on the right:
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“Here be squirrels…”
Over 400 steps to this point -
Autumn to the max -
Seem to pass the bridge on every walk at some point -
In’t woods in’t sun, like…
Liberties being taken…
Cute, if f’kin annoying at times (dog, obvs, I’m annoying all of the time…)…
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Those steps are fecking brutal. Mick and Mrs Mick made me do them with the promise of a pub at the end
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Until we did them today I did wonder why he usually does the scarce 2 miles between the Black Swan and his home in a car…
Now I know! 
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Down is bad enough. Could you just imagine the return journey 
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I don’t have to imagine it - we did the climb up today, felt like we’d earned our pints, and then some!
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Cracker of a day - met @mickbald and Jan (+ Basil & Bandit of course) at the Black Swan in Jackfield for lunch and a few pints, then a potter up to Broseley via some charming ‘dingles’ (narrow, wooded, steep-sided and more-or-less dry valleys)…
…and by potter, I mean staggering uphill for approximately 12 years, panting like a steam train and sweating like a priest in an orphanage…
…and that was the easy route… Luckily the Duke of York in Broseley was standing-by with a few more pints of rehydrating fluids, before we pottered the last-leg to Mick & Jan’s place for a final (not final) pint and a chance for all four dogs to get to know one-another better - which mainly involved Max growling menacingly at two amiable, well-behaved, but confused collies, while Tara batted-around like an absolutely mad bastard trying to wind all three up!
Turns-out Jan’s measures of gin are possibly even more massive than Sam’s, so the long, slippery walk downhill in the fast-growing dusk involved steering two fuckwit dogs while part-carrying an incoherently cheerful Sam - once I retrieved her from the undergrowth …
Some stumbling later and we were back ‘home’ - and the only possible way to round-off an afternoon like that - more beer in the Black Swan…
It’s been a wet day… 
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Hope Jan saved you some cask gin 
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It certainly was.
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Great afternoon. We all really enjoyed it.
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Newhaven looking particularly fine today
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Beaches looking a tad small.
Canny swimming pool tho’
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The weather was pretty iffy yesterday, but it’s an outstanding morning down on the Scheldt today.
Strangely I seem to have no obvious ill effects from walking back from the gig venue at 2am.
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The wife’s just booked some expensive all in family jaunt to Gran Canaria next year.
I lament the watches and hifi I could have bought with that money.
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We’re you not involved in this decision?
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