Hi Folks it’s me and the walk this Thursday.
Life is endlessly exciting, don’t you think? You chug along merrily
thinking A is true then, in a flash of wonder, you see that it might not
be; it could just be that B is the real truth, WOW a new world has
opened. Maybe you had always thought there must be a God how else could
there be a world, then suddenly the flash, and it comes to you, that
idea is just ridiculous where is he? What is he? Maybe he’s a she? Maybe
he never be. It could be the other way round of course, you are on the
road to Damascus and … you know the story! These moments are kind of
upsetting but deliciously exciting, new vistas, new possibilities, new
worlds, new adventures.
So, I’ve agreed to organising this week’s Thursday walk, a default
position since there were no other takers, and I’ve been laying awake at
nights, racking through my mind, going round in circles, unable to focus
and it is now Tuesday! Something must be done! So I opened a map.
And as my eyes wandered from Dronfield to Parkwood Springs, Totley to
Dam Flask, and not forgetting Moor Hall and Broomhead Reservoirs, my
eyes lighted on Kepple’s Column. And for some reason which I now see as
ridiculous I’d always thought Kepple’s Column was North of Wentworth
Woodhouse. I have walked along that crumbling wall of Wentworth
Woodhouse gardens, looked across the valley at Kepple’s Column and
believed I was looking North. And I was wrong! A new vista arose!
We could meet somewhere near Kepple’s Column and walk across that
inviting valley, past lakes (Morley pond, Dog Kennel Pond) and deer
parks and Roman Ridges to Wentworth and back. It’s the right distance,
I’ve measured it.
So that’s it, there is a promising Pub in Scholes called “The Bay Horse”
I’ll investigate and let you know the precise coordinates tonight.
Meanwhile I hope you will join me
Gordon
