We actually started early-ish this morning. Dad had set his phone to wake us with Reveille. Ha ha I don't think.
We had lots of filling tinned stuff from the food stash for breakfast. But we still had to carry the empty tins away because there were no bins.
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| 8.05am: Nomity nomity nom nom nom. |
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| 8.43am: Dad took ages packing everything away, as usual. |
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| 8.47am |
We didn't take any water though because there was a tap very near. It was outside a pub. We asked if they were open but they weren't. Dad seemed disappointed. Don't know what the problem was... the tap was working!
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| 10.18am: The cat at the tap at the Plough at Cadsden. |
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| 10.31am |
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| 10.46am |
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| 10.49am |
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At about 11-o'clock we saw Chequers, but we didn't see the Prime Minister.
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| 10.57am |
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| 11.03am |
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| 11.31am: You can't catch me, I'm the hay bale man. |
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| 12.08pm: Getting near the monument on Coombe Hill. |
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| 12.33pm: At Coombe Hill Monument. |
When we reached Wendover it was still very very hot. We topped up our water supplies in Budgen, had an amazing ice-cold milkshake, then got an ice lolly. I think everyone should be able to enjoy an ice lolly but there are lots of people who can't even afford a proper dinner. If you would like to help, please sponsor my walk so that Luton Foodbank can keep making food parcels. Please click here and please share with your friends too: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=dirkwithnail
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| 1.58pm: First real smile in ages! |
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| 3.06pm: Train fans take note. |
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| 3.33pm: A Donnie Darko rabbit marked in dried salt. #blackmagic |
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| 3.33pm: Mine was a horned goat. Even more #denniswheatley |
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| 4.05pm: Cooling off in the shade. |
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| 4.21pm: Got me some walking poles. |
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| 4.21pm |
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| 4.48pm: Grim's Ditch again? Or someone elses? |
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| 5.01pm: Obelisk. |
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| 5.11pm: Mound. |
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| 6.26pm: Spooky woods. Till the Gymkhana passed through. |
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| 6.30pm: Tring Park. Much more cheerful! |
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| 6.30pm |
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| 6.40pm |
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| 6.40pm: Resting peacefully (it says here). |
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| 6.41pm |
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| 6.45pm |
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| 6.47pm: Balloon! |
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| 7.00pm |
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| 8.14pm: Zoological confusion in the Tesco car park. |
It got dark while we were walking the last bit to our camp. We decided to miss out a very short stretch of dangerous looking road by going on the other side of a field. It didn't work. The road was just as dangerous but there was more of it! I put my rucksack in jellybean mode and every time a car came we had to jump in the hedge!
Eventually we left the road and it was totally dark. We found a spot to camp and Dad pitched the tent by torchlight.
While he was doing that I found a compass and some coins on the ground behind a bench. I've put them on the bench so the owner can find them, but I expect they're miles away now.
It's been a VERY long day and it's VERY hot in the tent but we can't open the doors properly because there are loads of flying insects trying to eat us. I can hear a fox barking a few metres away.
Tomorrow we will reach the end of the Ridgeway!
Distance covered: 24.713km
