Another local walk today, this time because the weather forecast was better than it was for the Peak District. I caught the Worksop bus to Langold and walked over to Thurcroft, passing through Firbeck and Throapham, and skirting to the south and west of Laughton en le Morthen.
When I reached Thurcroft I somehow managed to miss the town centre but I did eventually find a bus stop where there were two buses an hour going to Rotherham.
Train drivers are operating an overtime ban all this week and so I decided to go on the local bus to Gringley on the Hill in Nottinghamshire. I headed southwest across the fields to the Chersterfield Canal at Clayworth and then continued over to Lound, passing through the less interesting part of Idle Valley Nature Reserve.
I popped into Clayworth church to photograph the Traquair Murals.
I now headed more in a southerly direction, passing through the better part of the Nature Reserve and finishing the walk at Sutton Crossroads from where I caught the bus back to Doncaster.
Siobhan, my support worker, drove me to the fete and then returned and joined me later; the village is only six miles from Doncaster town centre. I arrived quite earlier and so not many people werre around as I was taking the first of the photographs - it got much busier later.
Cakes were bought and cream teas were enjoyed inside the church waiting for the carillon to play at three o'clock.
The weather was a bit disappointing this year, windy, cloudy, and cold, and a couple of brief light showers: at times the stallholders were struggling with the wind.
