Hello to Willand

Willand is my mother-in-law's new home. Having driven her there we helped clean, unpack and did various other odd jobs, and I managed two early morning runs, thus the last two of the four mentioned in my last post. Once again you have to interpolate the beginning of my route because my GPS device takes such an age to get first lock. My first run took the road from Willand to Halberton turning left towards Sampford Perverell, total distance about 12km.

Grand Western Canal, Sampford Peverell

Tiverton Parkway station

My second run started hesitantly to the church and then towards Cullompton then, as the main road was too busy, I retraced my steps to the church where my GPS device got first lock, then across the river meadows to Bradfield and Coldharbour.  Total distance about 11km.

Weir on River Culm at Coldharbour

Goodbye to Norfolk

Here is a rather belated report on four runs during recent UK trip. I attempted to GPS track all four but my smartphone took ages to get first lock and I wasn't going to hang around waiting for it, getting frozen. So you will have to interpolate a bit from the end of the track which was obviously the beginning of my run to the beginning of the track

The first two are perhaps my last runs in Norfolk (sob, sob). My first track was perhaps 15km.

First sun from Broad Lane

Coxford church

Almost home again

The second track was just over 10km - shorter because I was worn out from the previous run and all the house packing we were doing. I returned via West Rudham church. Running barefoot through a cabbage field was an interesting experience but one feels obliged to keep the English public footpaths in use!

Granpa's grave

West Rudham church

Footpath through cabbages

Showing the church, and the cabbage path below it

If I get around to repeating all this hard work my next post will be two runs in "Hello to Willand".

The most beautiful girl in the world

Did I mention this before?  Well, if I did, this is a better photograph of the original than my last attempt.  The original is a black and white photograph hand tinted with, I suppose, water colour.

The most beautiful girl in the world

I am reliably told that this is the same person
(on another occasion)

Beeston tram works

The Beeston line

On the way to Ali's mum - another shopping stop giving me time to suss out work on an extension to Nottingham's tram system. The works introduced a considerable detour in our route to the shop Ali wanted.

Norfolk

Tuesday Market place, Kings Lynn, after the deluge

The occasion: stopping for the inevitable shopping at Kings Lynn on the way to helping Ali's mum move from Norfolk to Devon.

The Great Ouse, from the ferry steps, just before the deluge

So Ali is off shopping for Goodness knows what and I have some free time. It is very liberating taking to the streets of an unknown city running barefoot in the rain. Actually I manage to shelter during the worst of it at the steps where the ferry to West Lynn stops.  The "Great Ouse" - what a wonderful name for such a sluggish river!

The West Lynn ferry arriving

Looking upstream to the steps down to the ferry
Ouse-mud feels so soft between the toes...

Zooming in - some people waiting for the ferry