By: Blonde One
The Two Blondes have today had a very lovely day. The sun has shone and for most of the day there has not been a cloud in the sky. A quote from one of my favourite books is that the sky is a “blameless blue”. A nice quote don’t you think? I certainly think that today’s sky was indeed “blameless”. I wonder what the Two Blondes got up to today, you might ask? Have they been taking silly pictures of Jelly Babies? Have they been on some extreme navigation challenge? Have they been pretending to be casualties again for the Dartmoor Search and Rescue?
Well, actually, none of the above. We haven’t even ventured up onto the Moors today and yet we have travelled miles, navigated our way around some very familiar and not so familiar areas and spent hours relying on our maps! Today we have been writing routes for our future book. Even though the weather was perfect walking weather and we were sat indoors we still managed to get great pleasure from Dartmoor: that’s true dedication and devotion surely?
I spent a lovely hour looking for Nantllanerch and my old walks on my old one inch to the mile OS map and comparing it with the new map . Lots of happy memories – so thankyou Blonde 1
Glad to be of service!
The Two Blondes Walks sounds like an amazing book – can I order an early copy???
I have spent the last hour lying on the floor with my 9 year old and a map of Dartmoor and she has just planned her first Dartmoor walk!! We looked for some key navigational points and discussed how we would find them while walking – brilliant!!
You will definitely get a signed copy for all of your dedication and support. Well done little Rach for expedition planning!
This sounds like its going to be good! It must have been difficult having to stay indoors.
Are you going to have a grading system? One Jelly Baby for easy, two Jolly Babies for moderate and three for challenging?
You could become as famous as Wainwright!
We were wondering how to grade our walks! The JB idea is brilliant. We were thinking shoes: stilettos for easy, flipflops for moderate and boots for challenging but thought that some people (who are as blonde as us) might actually try to go out in stilettos!