David Sharp's Blog

Jane wanted to go look at some cars today so we went to Trade Center in Rotherham, a huge second hand car retailer. We saw just what we wanted a 6 year old Citroën C3 Picasso, lovely car but unfortunately we are not able to buy at the moment. One day soon, hopefully! The Earl Grey. Anyway after a late Greg's lunch we dropped into The Earl Grey, which was just up the road, for the Sunday afternoon open mic. A nice surprise to see a few of our poetry buddies from Doncaster there and it turned into a great afternoon once again. Jane doing her bit.

It was pouring with rain this morning as I set out on my walk that also gave me a chance to test my re proofing of my old Regata jacket. These two had the right idea. love these old tracks, this is coming off Hay Green Lane, Birdwell. Getting a bit damp now up in Shortwood. So the weather did dry up a bit and more importantly my waterproofing wash on my old jacket certainly improved things. Just under 4 miles walked this morning.

Jane and I had a little walk out today from home down to the country park. Jane heading for the woods.

Took Jane to Wakefield for a Jackonory poetry get together, I wasn't too keen so I dropped her off and decided to amble around town for a couple of hours and get a few miles in for my #walk1000miles effort. In the end I did about 3 miles. Wasn't too inspired by Wakefield here are a couple of pics I took. At first glance I thought this was a church but I think it was a school. Bit passed its prime now. Lovely restored old cobble Street.

No it's not me having the haircut it's our lovely Willow Tree in our back garden. We love this tree but over the last 8 years it had grown very large and was blocking out a lot of light from our garden and our neighbours. Before the haircut. And after the haircut a job well done. The Cherry Blossom looking good at the bottom of the garden. Of course we kept all the wood, why wouldn't we?

Just a quick walk around the block today and the sun was shining, a bit of a nippy wind though. Looking back off the hill to Birdwell. Looking up towards Pilley. Birdwell to Pilley and Tankersley, just a short hop around the block.

Continuing my 'Walk 1000 miles in 2022' this is day 2 and it was pretty soggy. We didn't let that deter us and I was so pleased Jane was walking with me today. A bit of a mixed blessing because I was thinking of a pretty short walk, it was raining, and the next thing I know Jane is leading of through the trees towards Westwood. Then we walked by Storrs Dyke and returned home via Upper Tankersly. Exactly 5 miles walked today, banking the miles nicely now.