Month: January 2023

Picture from Jane, report by Hilary   Is there a possibility that a maker of snowshoes could invent something to be called mudshoes? Or perhaps the producers of a famous lubricant could give us a mud-repellent version to spray on our boots? It was difficult to appreciate the scenery...

  By Barry Creamer One of the aims of Peterborough Ramblers is the constant development and expansion of our Thursday and Sunday Walks Programme and of our list of Walk Leaders, in order to ensure that we don’t depend on the same leaders too often, and we are always...

  Pictures from Jackie Markley, rambling nonsense from Tony. As you will have noticed from the Ryhall pictures and notes already published the dominant feature on the walk was the horned beasts that roam the area. And so here in this second set of photographs we see yet more...

Pictures from Tom,  notes from Hilary Why pay for costly gym membership when Peterborough Ramblers can offer you all the benefits for free? The group who joined the walk were well briefed: it was to be “muddy, and even waterlogged”. The first 45 minutes concentrated mainly on thigh muscles,...

Previously: Burleigh House Walk (with added fungus) 5 January. Our pictures thus far (see the link above) covered the most beautiful and delicate aspects of the Burghley  House walk.  But there was also a deeper, darker side to the walk which Jonathan captured in his images.   A deeper, darker...

Photographic evidence by Simon Bradford.   Random nonsense by Tony Attwood Burghley as you may know is a sixteenth-century English country house, of which it has been said, although what was said I am not quite clear. It is, according to Wikipedia “a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house,”...

Previously in this series relating to the walk on 29 December 2022… The Apethorpe Walk Part 1 The Apethorpe Walk Part 2: 29 December 2022 As you will have read in the earlier episodes of the grand adventure that was Apethorpe 2022, this was a grand adventure largely involving...