A quiet day at Elton

Moored Elton, River Nene

This morning I was surprised that there was no rain wakening me.  It stayed that way too even after breakfast, and looking at the weather over the meadows I decided to take the girls Lucy and Meg for a wander.

There were some geocaches in the area, and I marked them up on the map and set off with the gps to try find them.  Some of the route followed the old disused railway that was once part of the Nene Valley Railway.. a lot of it is still used as a footpath, but where people haven’t bothered it is overgrown and gone back to nature or the local farmer whatever.

I was annoyed at one bit when I came to a road crossing there was high barbed wire over a fence stopping my very enjoyable walk.  I do wish these disused railways could be allowed to be used as footpaths you know.

Anyway we managed to scale that with no rips to skin or clothes and carried on after crossing the road.  Much of what was Elton Station platforms are still intact, but it was so overgrown that eventually we had to turn back and use roads to reach our intended goal.

We successfully managed to find 3 of the caches and duly signed the log before heading back to Elton via a different route hoping to make it before the rain started..

This delightful house called “Island House” is, as the name suggests, completely surrounded by water, with the river on the far side of the house. behind me is a large copse.. this surely must be one of the most idyllic places to live.. Timed it just right, as the rain started not long after getting in doors.

Oh yes, by the way I forgot to say.. I did a weeks worth of recycling at Oundle before we left there, taking around 5 carrier bags a mile or so across the meadows and into Oundle..

Justified that I had done ‘my bit’ I noticed a couple of blokes just staring.  I knew they needed an explanation as to why this lady had ‘walked’ into the household recycling plant and carefully went round all the bins and containers with plastic, cardboard, paper, wine bottles, beer cans and the like.. I can’t imagine what they were thinking.. so I put them out of their misery and told them a bit about No Problem!