A Little Post

I have been out of action for a little while as life has taken over.  I have sold my house and have been busy house hunting so have not had a lot of time for card making.  I have also been in training for a long distance walk I am due to undertake with three friends.  The walk is The West Highland Way which takes us from Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, to Fort William.  A distance of 93 miles in 7 days.  We travel to Glasgow on the Friday 17th June and start our walk the following day.  With this in mind I thought I would make a card for each of my fellow walkers to mark the occasion.  Imagine my delight when I saw that Little Claire had brought out the most appropriate stamp - The Great Outdoors.  The card shows the route of the walk on the left  - I downloaded this from a West Highland Way web site - I then stamped and coloured with pro markers the image, before matting and layering, then finishing off with some card candy.

I then stamped the sign post image with the boots on the inside.  I decided that the locations written on the post would show the way home, the way to our destination of our walk, Fort William, and also Ben Nevis as we climbed this 2 years ago.

I hope you like my effort.

Walking day

In June this year myself and three friends are going to the walk the West Highland Way - Glasgow to Fort William (93 miles).  The reason for doing this is one of the party - Mary - will be 70, although you wouldn't believe it,  and she had read about the walk and liked the sound of it so she asked if we would like to join her.  The four of us have done a few long distance walks over the last few years, one being the Coast to Coast.  In prepartion for the WHW Mary and I decided we would do some extra walks during the week, we usually walk with a walking club every Sunday.  A local long distance walk in our area is the Minster Way - walking from Beverley Minster to York Minster (50 miles) therefore this seemed and ideal opportunity to do the walk as training and today we did the first 10.5 miles - Beverley to Kilnwick. 

The weather was brilliant, the walking easy along field paths and roads.  During our lunch stop in the church yard in Scourton we heard a woodpecker and saw a pheasant chasing a stoat, and the bird song was wonderful.  It was so peaceful.

It was lovely to walk in our local area as we normally travel a little further afield.  It was also nice to see the villages of Arram, Scourton, Lockington and Kilnwick in more details as these are usually by passed when we drive by.

The only down side of the day was that I forgot my camera - what a numpty.

Can't wait for the next section - hope the weather is as good.