Horton Country Park

In the olden days, before retirement, FIL and bag life, we used to walk in Horton Country Park quite often, whereas as it is I can't remember the last occasion we walked there together and the best that the blog can come up with is the solo job at reference 1, from more than two years ago.

But this morning it was bright and we thought to do it. And a very nice place it was too, popular this bank holiday morning after the grey days of the last week or so. Lots of dogs and Christmas presents out. Plenty of birds singing, but the only small birds I identified were robins, which don't really count as tweets.

Two country geeks, one almost a caricature of same. Thirty something male, weedy, spectacles and country flavoured tackle, including map and bins. Quite possibly compass and penknife in two of the many pockets.

Regrettable chain saw action in two places, where the volunteers thought that chopping things down was a better use of their time than mending the paths, in rather bad condition thereabouts. Perhaps the work of the vehicles used to get them to their actions - with no respectable volunteers actually walking to, never mind in, the woods they fell. Not done at all.

PS: pleased to see that Horton Country Park is known to gmaps under that name. See reference 2.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/decanted.html.

Reference 2: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Horton+Country+Park.