Stiles

Knockholt to Hayes
Date 25-Oct-15
Actual Distance km 27.70
Actual Distance miles 27.70
People 10
Hours 6.12

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Russet and gold under cool sun light

Knockholt with all its glorious names

The station, pound and charming village

Rolling grassland with not a road in sight.

A flight of stiles too numerous to count

Each with double steps too high for ease

Gatherings of fairy toadstools in the grass

A crowded picnic lunch on a church step.

The High Elms country park in Autumn finery

Textured sunlight across the woodland floor

Steely reflections across the Keston Ponds

A forest walk in waning sun to Hayes. 

A Golden Sunset

Wimbledon Park and Wimbledon Common
Date 14-Oct-15
Distance miles 6.22
People 8
Hours 2.00

We strolled towards a rainbow sunset
Red blue and gold above the roofs
City lights now obscured by trees
Sleepy swans backlit by golden sun.

Wimbledon Common revealed its charm
In the dark of a moonless night
A sail less windmill to our left
Mysterious roving lights close by.

A nervous walker with his hound
An empty golf club with lights ablaze
Mansions of the village passed by
Convivial drinks at walk's end.

Epicureans Part 3

Brief Description Hassocks to Lewes
Date 26-Sep-15
Actual Distance km 23.97
Actual Distance miles 14.90
People 7
Hours walking 4.47

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Oh what a bucolic day we spent

In the gently rolling South Downs

Breathing in the pure country air

Marveling at the beauty all around!

We feasted on fresh fish and ale

We talked about life in Madrid

Pescatorial matters and other things

In Plumpton Green at the Half Moon Pub.

Replete, we slowly made our way 

A kestrel hovered above a ridge

Perfectly still in an updraught

And para-gliders bobbed in the winds.