Hopefully, we’ll be able to set up another weekend walk before too long - on one of the last two weekends in August might be a possibility, although it can be difficult over the summer holidays with people off doing other things.
A quick reminder @cat-1 @RichardBuck @rebecca @janjones_1 that we have a walk pencilled in for next week on Thurs 19th (confirmation one way or the other plus details during the week, with Mon 23rd as a fall back)
Hwyl, John
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Yes! I’m very much on track for a Thursday walk! Jo is too, barring drama…
Dorothy has come through her op like a machine and will be back at school by then, so as long as we can finish our walk and get back by three, we’d love to come!
Brechdanau a fflasg o de!
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That’s great! Good for Dot - hope she did get to enjoy some, at least, of the experience as much as she was hoping!
Let me know @cat-1 when you and Jo would be able to set off from home - and you too @RichardBuck - and I’ll try and come up with a plan to make sure everyone can get back by three.
We would be able to set off between half nine and ten.
If it is not too hot a day, would Shreddie the Welsh Speaking Dog be welcome to join in? I shan’t ask if the pony can come as well…
I’m not sure Dot had time to appreciate her experience - we were only there for four and a half hours, and she was in the land of Nod for some of that! I think the fact that she can both hear and smell is taking some getting used to! 
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Yes, very happy for Shreddie the Welsh Speaking Dog (Cynhiniwr? 
) to join us, if others hoping to come along don’t mind.
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I’m thinking of a couple of possibilities for Thursdays walk:
- Beckley/Otmoor area - mostly out in the open
- Bernwood Forest (about 4km E of Beckley) - mostly wooded
Let me know if you have any preferences (or indeed alternative suggestions!
)
Hwyl, John
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Both sound good, but I vote for the wooded area if it’s still monstrously sunny and hot. If it is hurling it down with rain (you know it’s coming, just who knows when) then I have no preference! 
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Let’s go for Bernwood Forest then - how does meeting up there at 10:30am sound?
The red arrow on the map shows the entrance ot the parking area and its location in relation to Beckley
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10.30 sounds perfect for us! See you tomorrow!
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Dear all - Henry has just returned from hospital having (brace yourselves) ripped off an entire fingernail and some fingery bits by getting his hand caught in a bike wheel! 
He needs ferrying up to Plastics tomorrow at the JR.
Can you believe it?
Could he not have waited one more day before his acrobatics? (Promise I’m full of wifely concern really…)
So, YET AGAIN, I’m not going to be there. Sorry troops 
Oh, that’s bad luck @cat-1 eto! … and poor Henry! - I’m assuming that means Jo won’t be joining us either.
@RichardBuck are you still planning to come on the walk? Are either of you @rebecca or @janjones_1 planning to join us? Hopefully I’m not going to be the only one there! 
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Oh, God, poor him - I had a fingernail ripped off by a train door in Germany once, and it remains one of my top 2 or 3 ‘no, that hurt too much even for me to remember it, in fact ouch ouch thinking about remembering it is now hurting too much’ moments…
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He’s off to the Nuffield now to have the rest of the nail taken off. Don’t mind admitting that just thinking about it makes me clench my toes and wince with one eye shut. 
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Oh dear, poor Henry - I hope they pumped him full of anaesthetic and pain-killers
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All done! He has broken it and cut it down to the bone 
OUCH!
They’ve removed the nail and stitched him up, and now the numbness is wearing off…
From now on he will be known as Mr Co-codamol!
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First, a belated diolch i @RichardBuck for the sgwrs on our July Bernwood Forest walk.
Well, now the Eisteddfod’s over, time to think about possibilities for a walk this month.
Let me know if you might be interested and what day or days might suit (as things stand at the moment, I could probably fit in with whatever day in August works for people, weekend or weekday).
Hwyl, John
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