Sunday 12 January 2014

A first winter day

Today has felt like the first proper winter day.  Heavy frost on the car, beautiful crisp sunny morning.  We took ourselves southwards for a little walk around Blackmoorfoot reservoir with Stewart.

It's a great little place for a little person to go walking.  The first leg involved lots of little 'houses' amongst the rhododendron bushes and the acquisition of a few walking sticks.  The second leg, across the dam, involved a lot of icy puddles so that we could play at pushing stones across, bashing the ice with our walking sticks to let the air bubbles out, and picking up pieces of ice and dropping them to let them smash.  This leg also involved a couple of horses.  The third leg included a banana "to help me keep walking".  The final leg involved a lot of I Spy.  And we ended at a pub for a lovely Sunday lunch, where Marisca had a posh fish finger sandwich followed by ice cream.  We're so pleased that she had a lovely time and are planning more visits.

Tom, as ever, sat in the backpack quietly streaming from his nose, and had his fill of everyone else's lunch.



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