50 things -
Make a trail with sticks
The other day Bigger Miss decided she wanted to go to the woods for a walk and do another of her
#50things to do before she is 11 3/4. We had a look at her adventure scrapbook and decided that she and Little Miss could do no. 12 - Make a Trail with Sticks. I wanted to pick a few more blackberries before it was too late so I collected the treasure whilst they made a secret trail for me to follow with sticks. Like the mud pies they had lots of fun.
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Having fun in the woods making a trail with sticks for Mummy to follow (you can see the arrows!) |
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The 'treasure' at the end of the trail - can't get better than some blackberries! |
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Afterwards we went conker hunting - prising the conkers from their spiky shells - all ready to do no 10. of the #50things - play cconkers.
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Hidden Hindhead - a Great British Walk
The next day was an inset day and due to our wretched boiler we couldn't go out for a full day so we decided to blow the cobwebs away with a couple of hours doing one of the National Trust's Great British Walk. In this case a trail called 'Hidden Hindhead' which starts at the Devil's Punchbowl in the Surrey Hills. It is only a 3 mile walk but it still took us nearly two hours - mainly due to Little Miss being a tad slow on occasions! We had loads of fun on it though and the scenery was magnificent even on a rather grey and misty day.
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The walk was very well signposted with pink signs |
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Taking in the view over the Devil's Punch Bowl |
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Striding out through the woods |
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Gorgeous patterns on the trees |
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We found some spectacular trees |
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and weird sticky fungi. |
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Calling into the hollows in the trees to see if the fairies would answer. |
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Amazing trees in a coppiced area that looked like something out of Narnia or a tropical forest. |
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We even found a charcoal burner's camp |
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The charcoal burner's camp - we pretended we were in Swallows and Amazons |
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There had to be some puddle splashing of course |
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testing out the new wellies |
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When Little Miss got a bit bored we went on a bear hunt through the squishy squashy mud |
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A sunken lane leading from the woodland to the heathland |
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Nearly home - Little Miss was a bit tired and had had enough! |
Everyone can do it - go and get some fresh air in the countryside this weekend and join in with the
National Trust's #GBwalk!
Linking up with Country Kids from Coombe Mill:
what a beautiful place x
ReplyDeleteWhat a couple of lovely days spent outdoors enjoying the mild weather in such beautiful surroundings. The photos are great and show how much fun you all had, the girls made some very impressive arrows and large enough not to miss! Thanks for linking up and sharing your fun outdoor adventures with Country Kids.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely woodland and beautiful trees! Looks like you could spend hours there.
ReplyDeletegreat photos; bet the dog would love walkies there too :)
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