South Cotswold Ramblers

King's Stanley car park. Note the curved corner on this house. We discuss (to no conclusion!)

Nine of us on Graham's 12-miler on this beautiful winter day

We follow the Cotswold Way across the playing field to Stanley Mill and these colourful berries

And Roses - in November?

After a breath-taking climb we eventually come to flat fields

Through a farm

With views across the Severn

An idyllic scene - clean sheep (after the rain?)

A broken stile

Makes crossing it difficult - Andrew will report it to Bob

The views get better

An Old Spot and some geese

The doll in the barn below Haresfield Beacon on the Cotswold Way presumably voted for Brexit - do dolls get a vote??

Into Haresfield where there are bears

And beautiful berries and shrubs in the sunshine

We cross a railway line- we don't usually get a light to cross, do we?

We're now heading back across cultivated fields - May Hill in the distance

They're not rockets - they are the cranes for the controversial incinerator at Javelin Park

A robin joins us for lunch

Then poses

Graham's original plan for lunch was at Standish Church, but it's hijacked for a wedding so we find this spot - not so salubrious under foot, but it has planks to sit on and it's in the sun, so we're happy

Into Nastend - this house perhaps has TOO close a view of the creamery

On to the canal path with its usual algae here

We follow the left side of the path

The afternoon sun shining onto the canal

Then cross the bridge to the other side

Cam Long Down and Cam Peak silhouetted in the distance

To The Ocean

One of the two Stroud Canal mud boats - no prizes for guessing the other one

Still in glorious sun we head back to King's Stanley where we learn it was exactly 12 miles - well done, Graham!