Thursday 23 July 2020 - An Evening Stroll around Mobberley

 

For the inaugural 'Evening Walk in Deepest Cheshire' of the season, Andrew got a good turn out, as can be seen above, on a pleasantly warm evening. It was good to get together, as we are slowly released from Lockdown.

 

Andrew chose a route of about 4.6 km from the church in Mobberley. The Church Inn, opposite, was doing business, but we aren't quite ready for that yet. A couple of dog walkers and some farm vehicles were encountered, but otherwise we had the fields to ourselves.

 

Given his chronic hip problem, I was surprised to see such a formidable stile as the one below included on Andrew's itinerary!

 

 

Near the end, we passed the Bull's Head, an active hostelry with visiting cyclists and lots of space - an important commodity in the new world of 2020.

 

 

Across the road, whilst the Roebuck Inn proclaims that it is 312 years old, it wasn't open tonight.

 

 

From the Roebuck, we went round the corner to admire Bridget's garden, and in particular her hedgehog house and video recorder, which I'm told got good pictures of our legs, if no other wildlife  at the time. We do hope that Bridget gets some interesting sightings. We think we have hedgehog poo outside our own back door, so a similar recording gadget would be good to have. Who knows what fun is had in our garden overnight!

 

I recorded the route on my Garmin 35, but Garmin seems to be the victim of a ransomware attack that has blocked the usual processing of information from the gadget. I can find the .fit file that recorded our route, but I've been unable to convert that to a .gpx file that my Anquet mapping software will recognise. Further, I'm still struggling with Anquet OMN mapping (their latest and far from simple version), so the following image shows a rough guess at the route we took, by way of a pale blue line with no arrows. We went clockwise. I'll replace this with a more accurate route in due course if Garmin recovers its composure or I find a way of converting the .fit file.

 

We went 4.6km, taking 1 hour 20 minutes, so the following 5 km route is patently incorrect...

 

 

Anyway, it was a lovely evening, and good to at last enjoy a summer evening walk, in a series that usually starts in April. (Shame about the lack of beer, though.)

PS Garmin recovered after a week, and the actual route was this one: