On a rainy day, with 2” of rain and gale-force winds forecast, three pie munchers “called in sick”. The Walk Master too was unable to walk, but kindly devised a walk around Reepham and Whitwell to take in the beer festival at Whitwell station, and had delivered it to the Führer. The two cars of munchers, managed to successfully navigate to the car park north of Reepham, unlike
last month... Six munchers set off, the Führer looking at the map, declared that the prescribed walk used paths that would be too slippery in the wet conditions, and that we would walk some of Marriott’s Way! Heading south down the road towards Reepham, we took the first footpath on the right.
Following our Führer, along slippery footpaths, after a few minutes we ended back at the cars! We then headed north along the road, away from Reepham and took the first footpath on our left, traversing this, we looked for a footpath on our right that would get us onto Marriott’s Way – the old M&GN line. Eventually we found a rather wet field with footpath across it. We managed to circumnavigate the deepest water and get on to the old railway track. Finding a bridge over the track, we elected to use this shelter from the rain, to eat our sandwiches, as we would now not be visiting Reepham church as planned. After walking further west, we took a footpath south that brought us first onto quiet roads, and then back on to another part of Marriott’s Way.
We followed this, east, to
Whitwell station and the excellent
beer festival. With 20 good beers on, and those we sampled, in excellent condition, along with the good food that was sampled by some. We headed back along Marriott’s Way a short distance, meeting two nervous horses that were spooked by the sight of a tent at the station, and came thundering back towards us! We had to leg it out of the way! Here we left the track and headed back to Reepham, along Back Lane, spotting 3 large deer in a field. From Reepham, we followed the road to the car park back to the cars. No canapés today, as King Canape was one of the munchers with a bad cold. Tea was accompanied by star shaped pies supplied by Jose Luis, from
Cannell’s family butcher in Diss. These apparently originated from Cornwell. The pies had a good crisp crust the filling had no jelly and almost no aroma. Unfortunately the filling was also lacking in flavour and texture. The pies were rather cold and this perhaps contributed to the lack of flavour. The pies came in with a score of 5.91666 with a standard deviation of 1.15830. The customary Shortcake finale did not occur in Ricky’s absence – however there was chocolate to complete proceedings. So a normalised score of 6 for Cannell’s family butcher of Diss.
Following our Führer, along slippery footpaths, after a few minutes we ended back at the cars! We then headed north along the road, away from Reepham and took the first footpath on our left, traversing this, we looked for a footpath on our right that would get us onto Marriott’s Way – the old M&GN line. Eventually we found a rather wet field with footpath across it. We managed to circumnavigate the deepest water and get on to the old railway track. Finding a bridge over the track, we elected to use this shelter from the rain, to eat our sandwiches, as we would now not be visiting Reepham church as planned. After walking further west, we took a footpath south that brought us first onto quiet roads, and then back on to another part of Marriott’s Way.
We followed this, east, to Whitwell station and the excellent beer festival. With 20 good beers on, and those we sampled, in excellent condition, along with the good food that was sampled by some. We headed back along Marriott’s Way a short distance, meeting two nervous horses that were spooked by the sight of a tent at the station, and came thundering back towards us! We had to leg it out of the way! Here we left the track and headed back to Reepham, along Back Lane, spotting 3 large deer in a field. From Reepham, we followed the road to the car park back to the cars. No canapés today, as King Canape was one of the munchers with a bad cold. Tea was accompanied by star shaped pies supplied by Jose Luis, from Cannell’s family butcher in Diss. These apparently originated from Cornwell. The pies had a good crisp crust the filling had no jelly and almost no aroma. Unfortunately the filling was also lacking in flavour and texture. The pies were rather cold and this perhaps contributed to the lack of flavour. The pies came in with a score of 5.91666 with a standard deviation of 1.15830. The customary Shortcake finale did not occur in Ricky’s absence – however there was chocolate to complete proceedings. So a normalised score of 6 for Cannell’s family butcher of Diss.
