INSIDE THE WORLD OF MEETUP

With tier 4 (lockdown) on the cards it was a case of getting a last meetup in for an unknown length of time. At this time of year meetups seem to have 30 people turning up only for half of them to drop out and this was the case again. Weather was ok for time of year cool but now wet or icy, it snowed the next day. We headed by boots PLC until we got to the canal before looping back round to Wollaton park. There was a stop 3/4 of the way round with some food stalls. Christmas themed of course but I'd already got my own. Had interesting people to talk to all the way round so much so I forgot to take any pictures.

 If you told me a year ago that I'd be catching 2 buses for the best part of 3 hours each way to go walking on the edge of the peak district on a cold, damp December morning I would have thought you were insane. These were no ordinary times living one government decision away from complete lockdown. So I was taking every opportunity to get away from home that I could. Only about a dozen turned up but it was always good to meet and talk to new people as per usual. It's never a good sign when the usually excellent walk organizer doesn't turn up and we are making the route up as we go along going in the opposite direction to what was planned. The first hour went well heading north up an old railway line from from Bakewell, then we turned onto a busy main road heading in the general direction of Chatsworth. After the village of Pilsley and a few fields we discovered that the main road to Chatsworth was unwalkable and had to turn back. By this point 4 of the group dropped out wi