Peterborough Ramblers 2022 AGM: the first pictures!

Pictures by Simon Bradford and Tony Attwood, with commentary by, oh dear… Tony Attwood.

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The AGM of Peterborough Ramblers was held on 25 November 2022, amid the normal scenes of joyous celebration, excellent food, and as much coffee as one might wish to drink before going on a walk during which WC facilities were unlikely to be plentiful.

All passed well and with general agreement on the various matters under discussion.   The minutes to be published anon will of course give greater detail.

And then as we headed for open country and darkening skies we did so with a sense of another year gone, and another AGM completed without witnessing the end of civilisation – at least not for a little while longer.

Indeed the provided food and drink was excellent, allowing for hearty chit chat plus much munching and swallowing before we ventured forth.

Now I think it is not exactly traditional but was jolly nice on this occasion, that we had arranged a fly past of what appeared to my inexpert eye rather slow-moving and large aeroplanes which came past us several times.

Of course it may have been the same plane going round and round, I can’t be sure, but I can say it was jolly large.

And it may be that they weren’t for us, but in the little world I inhabit I thought I could pretend they were, so I waved a lot, in a friendly sort of manner.  The horse was quite interested too.

And indeed it is always nice when we have observers with whom we can chat and pass the time of day and this occasion was no different, as local interest was maintained as we walked by.

Sadly however the darkening skies we had observed during the flypast began to creep nearer and nearer especially as we conducted what I felt was the highlight of the walk – along the river bank.

Plus the wind began to howl (or at least rise a bit), as is traditional in reports such as this wherein the light dims and the gale grows in ferocity, that the howling of the storm is noted.

However this part of the walk was jolly good I felt for here one can peek into householders’ gardens (note the correct use of the plural noun apostrophe) without being admonished for nosiness – they have chosen to live by the river bank and we have chosen to walk along the other river bank, and if one’s head points in the direction of their back gardens from the rear (as it were) well, that’s just how it goes.

But the wind arose and the rain began to fall, and for the last part  of the walk some of the delicate poignancy of the surrounding scenery was lost on your correspondent.

But the mud by the river bank was of a most interesting shade of brown grey darkness which explained why the houses were built on the other side of the torrent.

However, there is an important artistic and record keeping point here.

The last three pictures of the river, grass and mud were taken with an ordinary three-year-old Motorola phone, which shows that even if one only has a mobile phone with built in camera (as I do) one can still get a few decent pictures out of it.

Thus I would emphasise my message from the AGM: if you can take any pictures on phone or camera, on a walk, and email them to me afterward, giving your name and the walk in question (in that sometimes I get sent walk pictures a little while after the walk and I am easily confused these days) I can publish them here, and we all have a record of the event to share.

Send them to Tony@schools.co.uk – and it is probably best to send no more than three or four pictures together, as some telephonic devices don’t like more than that.  I think the little person inside the phone who copies the pictures out and then brings them over to me gets a bit tired if you do more than four at once.

Tony