Sunday lazy lazy Sunday well it was until i decided to go to Thruscross reservoir near Harrogate/Otley for an afternoon walk with Helen and Pip our little Jack Russell .about five miles from home realised we had forgotten pips lead , had to go back home i thought about buying a new one put finding a pet shop was pointless task so did a u-turn and went back home.
We finally got to our location and parked up and started the walk the first bit was nice and steady easy peasy stroll the the trail was littered with pine needles from the fir trees it was either muddy or hard going and in ways it was a bit like walking on a carpet , when we passed the mill ruin we came to a bridge to pass over the water , to get here took just under a hour it was around half past two the sun was out and it was a pleasant afternoon i thought we had completed one side of the reservoir , so we crossed over the bridge to come back to the car park .What we didn't realise at this point is that the three off us had completed less than a third of the walk as you can see from the map , which we only looked at when we got back home .From THIS POINT ON on it was muddier it was darker , it was up and down hills over fields and meadows and sty's it was twice as hard going on a few occasions we lost sight of the reservoir Helen was pissed off the dog was pissed off i was knackered my back and hip was playing up and aching terribly i had fallen down an embankment and to cap it all it was getting darker and colder bt he minute,over another hill and we saw the road going over the reservoir on which we drove on to the car park it was in the distance and guessing it was about another mile and a half away we made it back to the car i was in that much agony Helen didn't want me to go to work on the Monday , we got home Pip slept from getting home at half past six till the following morning , i did get up the following morning and did go to work , next time will look at the maps and distance we are walking we covered seven miles on our trek Helen has vowed never to go back to Thruscross reservoir again.