October 2007
thames path – part 14 culham lock to days lock
another day another thames path walk
more geocaching (three passed, three found)
more didcot power station
plenty more walking
even more didcot power station
more gorgeous scenery (this one spotted by kezia who asked me to take the photo
more pollution (and cheap boating gloves)
more lovely bridges
and more upmarket pill boxes
more pooh stick bridges (in fact this is home to an annual pooh stick competition which happens every year)
and plenty of lovely churches (although this didn’t have any decent hassocks)
back to work today. humph.
the thames in 3d
it’s a funkypancake 3d wobble landscape picture.
thames path – part 13 lower radley to culham lock
it’s half term week so i’ve taken two days off work so we can crack on with the thames path.
we picked up back where we started off in lower radley, this time heading for culham lock
i liked this stretch as there was lots of variety of countryside – woods, open farmland, a town (abbingdon shown above), posh houses on the side of river … and geocaching opportunities
it was also nice to see didcot power station on the horizon for much of the walk. i love it’s dramaticness and electricitynes.
usual signposts along the route so we didn’t get lost.
we were joined by Mike and BR this time too which made our party to 8. here are some signs.
kezia befriended some snails about half way round so carried them the rest of the way. she liked their wigglyness.
ooh. another sign.
we’re back to the path tomorrow to pick up where we left off.
geocaching
mmm. think we might be getting hooked on this. we passed 4 geocaching points on our thames walk yesterday. we found two and failed on another two. the problem of doing them in the middle of a 7ish mile walk is that you can’t stop for an hour and do a thorough search. but it helped break the walk up and was all good fun.
here is esther with one of the caches.
and here is a bridge where we didn’t find one.
The Institute of Cancer Research
we met this chap yesterday at the end of our thames path segment. He is walking the thames for the Institute of Cancer Research and kindly let me take his photo.
summer finally arrives in October ?
we had our harvest thanksgiving service at church yesteday. then we went for a walk with friends to a vineyard where there were plenty of grapes. and a bee
the guards museum
living exhibits
more success with geocaching
paul took us geocaching with a proper satnav. here he is with the cache.
here’s a tap fitting which roves the country
here they all are on their way
and finally, we also found our first microcache.
sophie’s 30th birthday
it was sophie’s 30th birthday party last night.
no smoking – does that includes hats ?
emily
this is kezia’s doll emily looking over the banisters down at me
