Lazy Sundays don’t seem so important when every day is a bit lazy this holiday week, but it doesn’t stop us at all. I prepare our usual grapefruit but then make a scrummy almond paste to create Almond Croissant and Almond Pains au Chocolat. Rather nice!
Moving on we head off to Dodworth Bottom and park up to start our walk. We head off towards Hood Green crossing the disused railway as we do.
Passing through fields and fields of sheep and young lambs we are saddened to see one mother mourning her two very recent still-boirns, umbilical still trailing behind her. Forging on we hit Crane Moor and then turn off between Pilley and Birdwell to cross the M1 via the classic footbridge at J36.
As we pass though a trading estate and see queues of people at the drive-throughs of Costco, Starbucks, Taco Bell, Kentucky - it’s astonishing these are so popular, but what do we know? Soon we’re away from the melé and find a quiet bench in Hay Green to enjoy our lunch - a different take on Russian Salad than last week’s version.
Dropping down to Worsborough Bridge we cross over the dam and commence our journey back to the car, along the disused railway we crossed at the top of the journey. Dr Beeching may have been a grim reaper in his time, indeed there’s not a lot of good one can attribute to him, other than the pyrrhic joy we walkers can now enjoy at the expense of economic history.
On our return I call on the neighbours we’ve not seen for ages, and catch up for a while whilst Hubby prepares afternoon tea.
Having seen many lambs today, it might seem callous to mention tonight’s dinner requires mint-based flavours, but we are country folk, and anyway the menu is created in advance. G&T’s take us through the dinner prep then we enjoy pea and mint soufflé, braised cabbage and cauliflower, roasted carrots and boulanger potato with our leg of lamb.
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