Home page Walks photos Archive 2006		southcotswoldramblers.org.uk Bulls Cross and Bisley - 5 August 2006 Richard sends photos from Saturday's walk led by Bill - a good turnout - 18 of us. Very warm and close - I came back 3 lbs lighter even after a pub lunch. .
		We meet at Bulls Cross on a cloudy but warm day and head down the road towards Slad .
		We turn off onto a footpath where efforts to improve seem to have made the going more difficult .
		Which heads steeply downhill as a stoney track needing to be taken with extreme caution .
		Our leader, Bill, checks anxiously at the bottom to ensure that everyone has survived the descent .
		And then leads us round a pretty pond - scene of a murder in Cider with Rosie .
		Then off up hill where Alan seems to have spotted something - or is he just playing to the camera .
		Looking back at Slad .
		Then its over Swifts Hill .
		To a stop for coffee at Purgatory - could be an omen .
		We walk up towards Fennels Farm and on to Toadsmoor .
		Spotted on the way - another omen .
		Wild flowers in the Toadsmoor Valley .
		As we climb steadily towards Bisley .
		Through a trickey kissing gate .
		Till we reach the first hostelry, where some of us stop for lunch .
		Refreshed we go in search of the rest of the party - could be in the lock up .
		No they are in here! .
		Our walk continues through Stancombe .
		Down through the Sydenhams .
		With views over Piedmont - influence of French textile workers .
		And Snow's Farm .
		Till we rejoin our outward route, struggling back up the stoney path ..
		Then back up the road to the cars .
		Photos and captions from Richard
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