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The first thing one notices about Upwood – at least the first thing a person who has\u00a0 not been there before, is that it is full of trees.\u00a0 And they rise to the sky.\u00a0 Rise, rise, rise.<\/p>\nThe first thing one notices about Upwood – at least the first thing a person who has\u00a0 not been there before, is that it is full of trees.\u00a0 And they rise to the sky.\u00a0 Rise, rise, rise.<\/p>\n
I suppose one might say that the clue is in the names “Upwood” but I have never been one for this sort of Holmsian activity, and as a result everything takes me by surprise. So there they were, lots of trees.<\/p>\n
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Gallons of trees I said to my companions, but they said I had the wrong measurement which surprised me as I didn’t know that Ramblers had gone all metric.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this Upwood place is indeed mysterious since it actually tells you on the signpost who is walking nearby – in this case Heleny and Bentley.\u00a0 It’s a lovely spot so I am sure they are getting on<\/p>\n
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well together.\u00a0 Anyway, as befits a group of Ramblers, staying on the road was never going to be enough, and so we entered fields of something or other.\u00a0 Being a Londoner I’m never very clear about what’s what, or why the ground has to have such enormous cracks in it, but they had certainly gone to town (or village I suppose one should say) in that case.<\/p>\n
Obviously, we soon had ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/peterboroughramblers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/16076-300x225.jpg\")
enough of all this middle-of-the-road stuff and took ourselves off to the edges of reality (as us science fiction readers like to call it), admiring on the left the corn, and then some corn, and then some corn.\u00a0 After a while I asked what really it all was but no one was willing to tell me.<\/p>\n
And yet curiously and without forewarning the corn infestation came to an end as was replaced by houses of a type that ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/peterboroughramblers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/16077-300x225.jpg\")
we\u00a0 have become familiarised with on the sunny beaches of Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n
I had expected to see lots of learned women and men reading things or waving their arms about having discovered a new element, but no that is now how it was.<\/p>\n
For no sooner were we through the village and out the other side than we were back in the countryside walking ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/peterboroughramblers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/16079-1-300x225.jpg\")
between rows and rows of growing things which were growing.<\/p>\n
Naturally, I enquired as to the purpose of all this growing business but my fellow walkers gave me curious looks and hurried on, and I was left none the wiser, which I think was unfair.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it was all jolly nice walking in the country without let or hindrance when, without a by or leave ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/peterboroughramblers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/160710-300x225.jpg\")
we suddenly found ourselves hemmed in, the roadway ahead being blocked.<\/p>\n
But now, if you have been on a Peterborough walk you will know that it takes more than a Pole (or a Hungarian come to that) to keep us from our magical quest (that being to find the way back to where we parked the cars) and once more we ventured fourth, if not fifth<\/p>\n
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into the fields of, well I am not too sure, being a Londoner and all that, but actuually I was tipped off by a fellow walker that they were were turnips.\u00a0 \u00a0But you never know because some of these walkers do like to pull one’s leg.\u00a0 Although, I am sure they would never be so cruel.<\/p>\n
Turnips I am sure they were.<\/p>\n
Continued anon….<\/p>\n
Commentary and pics by Tony A.<\/p>\n
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