Here are aspects of our week since Mr P and I are making the most of the good weather. We haven't had the thunder storms that were forecast for this week, but you never know.....
Yesterday morning we had a few things to do locally and then we took a break by driving to the Outibridge area. I had wanted to visit a park that was mentioned on The Repair Shop television programme when a lady came in with an interactive mechanical game that had belonged to her father. I paid even more attention when I heard that he had been a park keeper in a small park in the Upper River Don Valley region and on further research on the internet I found out that it looked like a lovely place with waterfalls and stone bridges and so on. I'd also hoped to take a walk alongside the river if I could find a safe place for Mr P to park. In the end it was difficult to get down to the river and up into the forest trails of Wharncliffe Crags. We would have had to drive further on to a parking area by a disused railway station and gone from there. We didn't find the park either so we went back to Outibridge which is more familiar to us. It was also getting quite hot and Mr P sat in the shade on a low stone wall in Outibridge Park. (The park could do with a few more benches).
Here are some of my photos I took as I walked around. The walk by the river was particularly refreshing and I found a road that takes you along part of it to the Memorial Pavilion and Cricket Ground where I could have gone on walking along a path by the river. Again, that will have to wait as I needed to get back to Mr P sitting in the park.
This morning was sunny so it was just the right day for a drive and a walk. Mr P was happy to drive us to an area which is still not far from where we live. As usual he sat in the warm car and I went for a short walk and took some photos.
This time the drive was along the Upper Don River Valley to the village of Outibridge (pronounced by the locals as "oo" not "ow") and then along some country lanes that overlook Wharncliffe Crags. The name of the place gives the clue to the terrain there. There are ancient woodlands on a rocky escarpment as well as newer tree plantations with good walking trails, but they'll have to wait for another day when it's less muddy underfoot.
Back in Outibridge there's a pretty public park, walks along by the river and one or two independent businesses. As there's a one-way road system around the village we didn't go by the shops to see how they're getting on in these difficult days.
