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Bloody hell the Ricoh pitch looks bad !

Think I told you once before where the Wyken Slough is Nick. It lies between Wood End and Aldermans Green. If you're in your motor just go past the Bird In Hand Pub and its located on the right,can't be missed.Its been done up a bit with a walking trail etc. Large lake which used to have boats...

Beware though Otis as the Henley Road sharpshooter takes pot shots at vegetarians !

Start em young. First outdoor trip I got my lad on he was only about 7 years old. He ran up the Malvern Hills and back down again ! My then missus was dead soft with him but that's not good for young lads. He thanks me now for toughening him up as he's a roofer but mothers often wrap them up in...

If you do North West Scotland/Highlands take loads of midge repellant with you. Other than that you'll love it !

I'd stick a large bet on anybody surviving a week being attacked by midges in Scotland. Scientists from around the world have tried to find ways to eliminate them but to no avail. They are viscious bastards.

We roughed it on that hike. Mainly in the tent and one night in a pub/hostel.But when we went to Peak District we stayed in a house two nights and one night in a farm type place.

I took my lad to Scotland about 20 years ago on a week long walking holiday.It was my first time there and it was a tough hike and we got hit by all types of weather and it wasn't for the faint hearted. But a guide asked me if I'd heard of their famous midges ? I hadn't but he said I will know...

Echo all of what you say. Since I stopped playing football/rugby in the 80's I started walking to replace it. I have been to gyms but prefer outdoors, it is natural and you can go where you like and it's cheap.I got my son into walking when he was a kid and he loved it,but my then missus said he...

Going off track a little. He's 6'6" and around 17 stone so is Klitschko I imagine.My all time favourite boxer Rocky Marciano was under six feet and weighed in at around 13/14 stone. I wonder how Rocky would handle these two heavyweight fighters if he was around today ? Then again he would have...

It appears his life is being run by the Hearns camp ? Maybe they want him to keep his boxing/private life apart? Strange whatever the reason !

I watched it and it was a good documentary. But his private life is a bit secretive I heard. He's got a partner and a kid its been reported,so doubt he still lives with his mum ?

My sister lives in rural Leicestershire and they had a neighbour who had a cockerel. It drove her nuts as the bird made a racket early morning waking the whole road up. This went on for months until strangely an eerie silence replaced the din. She heard the cockerel had mysteriously vanished one...

The one I saw was near Wood End !

Red Kites I'm envious ! But last year down by Cardinal Wiseman school there is wastelands and to my amazement/delight above my head was a sparrowhawk hovering looking down at the ground. That was a one off but never forgotten.

When I see something like that it thrills me but many people say so what ! I stood and watched a woodpecker chipping away up a tree and a few people stopped to look up too. When I told them what I was looking at they walked off as if it was dull !

Off track a bit. I had only ever saw a kingfisher once as a kid down by a stream in Walsgrave.Then on a walk not long ago down by the wyken slough I saw out of the corner of my eye a bright blue flash. It was a kingfisher diving into the water trying to grab a fish. Then it was gone but its...

Think yellow fields are usually rape seed ?

A house down Henley Road last week had a rifle sticking out from a bedroom window.I asked the owner what's all that about ? He said his garden is plagued with squirells nicking bird feed and messing up his flower beds etc. So he shoots them !! I said can you do that without getting nicked ? He...

On the round this week I've seen squirells,robins,blue tits,goldfinches,and heard woodpeckers in the distance. The weather has been chopping and changing one minute sunny,the next cold and windy. But stopping and pausing and looking around I thought how much I love the outdoors, add in the...