This was absolutely typical of the standard of counting you get from choral singers. If a score requires them to count to seven, you’re lucky if they get as far as three. (This walk was planned for seven people.)
The walking group also seems to have developed a fixation on bottoms. Last week it was Broadbottom, this week John’s walk took us through Mousely Bottom and Brookbottom. (One of the many Brookbottoms in the area, owing to the many brooks, but the nearest one to Mousely.) Continue reading →

By a strange coincidence, three members of Marple Choral Society rode the 394 bus and all got off at Gamesley.  December first is the start of “meteorological winter” (because it’s easier for weather forecasters to work in calendar months!) and we were rewarded with enough frost to put a thin crust of ice on the puddles of the field paths (but enough sun to melt it quickly in the exposed places). Continue reading →

We’ve had several comments for how lucky we’ve been with the weather for the walks.  Well, by contrast this one started out as a Grade A Grey Day, with cloud down below a thousand feet in places.  (In some of those places, we were walking at above a thousand feet.)  Nevertheless, a good (well spaced) walk ensued… Continue reading →

In Rainow, we met some people we’d met before, but, due to social distancing, they wouldn’t stay close enough to be photographed, so this is largely a chronicle of the impediments to progress on John’s obstacle course.

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