We did a 10-mile circular walk from the hotel. Up the combe to the top of the Quantocks, then past Halsway Post and Bicknoller Post and down to Kilve where we had lunch in the Hood Arms. Back up the lane and across the damp and foggy fields to the hotel. After dinner, scrabble. J …
We drove to Kilve and parked. Walked down to the beach and then turned left along the coast path for a bit before looping back inland to the car. Nice bright sunny day, despite the murky weather forecast. Stopped at the Hood Arms on the way back for a pint (on the house). Lunch at …
Went to Shapwick Heath and Ham Wall. Whooper Swans, Egrets, Herons, male and female Marsh Harriers, lots of ducks including Pintails. Good views of Lapwings and a Snipe just as we were about to leave. Then lunch at the pub in Cannington and on to Steart Marshes. Lots more ducks and Golden Plovers. No Spoonbills. …
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Checked into the thatched and thick-walled Mason’s Arms at 5pm, quickly ate some food we’d brought with us, and then headed off down the lanes to the village hall at Upper Odcombe. We were due to meet the other Odcombe carollers there at 5:45pm. R had met one of them, Steve C, at Sidmouth festival …