Another blister

I've gone and done it again, got myself another blister. My fault for trying to get a few more walks out of an old pair of boots, I think it's time I binned them. I came across my ordnance survey map the other day, a well worn map I might add as I have walked most of the footpaths in my area. There's nothing I enjoy more than planning a route on a map and discovering the footpaths on the ground. I've never been on a map reading course, but I imagine it would be quite interesting, you can keep your sat nav's, give me a map any day.
This morning was lovely so I set off up Tee Lane and turned right at the water tower down a track. Heading towards Coleby around the edge of the fields I came across a bench, in the middle of nowhere in particular, strange place to put a bench, I thought. Someone had tied a bouquet of flowers to the tree next to it, I read the card, it said, 'Forever yours'. How kind of someone to put a bench here so people can sit awhile and enjoy the solitude of the countryside. Of course the bench was placed there in memory of a loved one, someone who probably walked that path many times.

I carried on through Colby and across the fields to Alkborough. I have mentioned this place before. The sign at the entrance to the village has a picture of St Julian's Bower, a maze cut into the turf.

I joined the hill top to return home high above the River Trent. I love it up here. By this time my blister was starting to make me limp, but I hobbled on. The seven mile walk took me two and threequarter hours to complete. I'm going to do a thirteen mile walk next week, need to get my feet right for that.