Water, mud, picnic and fun

The new "out and about" group assembled at the "sitting tree" in Hetchell Woods near Thorner.
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After a swinging time...
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the walk started, but not that way...
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and certainly not that way...
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Several wellies got filled with water...
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while others tried a different way of crossing the river
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Some got stuck in the mud!
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Others got a helping hand
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Dennis the geographer reckoned the Pompicali earthworks were waste from the quarry
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It made a good picnic site
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for 37 people
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What are they all looking at?
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"It's a little filo pastry snack I made earlier!"
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After lunch, a short walk back to the cars
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With twelve baskets of rubbish left over
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(perhaps not all ours, perhaps not quite twelve baskets either).

David Wallace and Roman Tatarek-Gintowt, 26/04/2008

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