Wet & windy day out (Picture heavy)

[SimonM]

First day of the half term break and SWMBO gave me a pass to play out alone . Not only that, she offered to drop me off and pick me up again at a different spot allowing me to have a nice walk over the local moors to "my" woodland playground. That made a nice change to my usual circular route.

Looking down at my playground...

A moody self portrait...

As predicted, the weather turned wet & windy, so I rigged my new DD tarp (thanks Sandbag!) and cooked a dehydrated pasta meal with a Mars bar for afters. Notice my Ventile jacket on the left - standing open like it was cardboard!

What more do you need from life?...

On the way back I found some tracks... fallow deer I think...

and some droppings... badger I think...

SWMBO met me on my way out of the woods...

In all I had about 5 hours "me time" just to restore my sanity and get me in the mood for Middlewood on Thursday!

Simon

 

[The Joker]

I tell ya me time is very important every now and then.

Cool pics, lovely bit of countryside.

 

[addo]

Very jealous Simon, im fed up being stuck inside, even if its cold and wet, my sanity has about gone!

 

[spamel]

Very jealous Simon, im fed up being stuck inside, even if its cold and wet, my sanity has about gone!

I'm gonna try and get down to see you and Bernie weekend after next If that is OK Addo? I'll speak to The Ratbag and see if he can get along as well, sounds like you could do with some fresh company! Being cooped up with just wimmin is OK for a while.......

 

[addo]

Cool look forward to it Spam.

Looks a nice wood Simon.

 

[DKW]

Looks like a great scenery There.

 

[Shewie]

Nice one Simon - thanks for sharing

I looked out of the window this morning a decided I`d give it a miss. Good on ya for getting out there. Any sign of the deer (apart from the footprints) ?

 

[LazySod]

Them windmills can be seen for miles, I can see them from here and from Burnley when i went to visit friends this morn.

Nice pix Simon.

 

[Gill]

that looks great buddy, just what i could have been doing with, if i was,nt poorly .i,ve got serious cabin fever

 

[SimonM]

Nice one Simon - thanks for sharing

I looked out of the window this morning a decided I`d give it a miss. Good on ya for getting out there. Any sign of the deer (apart from the footprints) ?

No sign of them today, which is disappointing. It's the first visit to the woods where I haven't seen the Fallow deer. Only seen 1 red deer so far over the 2 years or so I've been playing there.

Simon

 

[SimonM]

Them windmills can be seen for miles, I can see them from here and from Burnley when i went to visit friends this morn.

Nice pix Simon.

I hate those windmills - about 5 years ago I lost traction on a bend (faulty road surface!) and rolled the car next to them. Car was a right off and I was off work for 5 weeks.

Both kids take greatdlight in pointing and saying "Look dad, thats where you rolled Mum's car!" Monsters the pair of them.

Simon

 

[Steve13]

I know what you mean windmills spoil the veiw from the back of our house too in fact the same windmills I think

 

[SimonM]

I know what you mean windmills spoil the veiw from the back of our house too in fact the same windmills I think

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of renewable energy resources - it's just those windmills I don't like!

Simon