We were fortunate enough to have a lovely bright sunny morning
with a slight breeze for the five and a half mile long walk.We started by going across a couple of easy stiles and into the
village of Tilbrook with some attractive stone houses, a typical
Northamptonshire style church and a paddock of sheep.
After a short road
section we were out into the wide expansive countryside with large arable
fields. A fair bit of activity was seen with various coloured tractors
ploughing, harrowing and seeding the fields after the harvesting. One tractor
stopped. It had an automatic guidance system aboard so the driver could sit
back and not have to turn the steering wheel!
We walked alongside the disused Cambridge to Kettering railway
and on into Covington village. Here we paused by the pretty village sign and
chatted to a guy cutting grass on a steep bank; once it was with a scythe but
now he uses a strimmer.
After a slight deviation around a newly ploughed field, rather
than across, we followed some more grassy verges downwards and back to the main
road close to the pub. It was in this last section that we saw a group of
alpacas and some Devon Red cattle.
We were a large group out today and the pub had some difficulties
serving 27 lunches in a short time (they said there was only one cook but he
had come in early). Still, I think most people enjoyed their food and felt
better for having done a lot more than a brisk 10 minute walk, as recommended
on Radio 4 this morning.
Thanks to Ian and Carna for organising and leading a very enjoyable walk. Extra thanks to Carna for the walk report and the pictures below.
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When is a llama not a llama? When it is an Alpaca.
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Red Devon cattle met en-route.
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Confucius say "wise man go round edge of muddy field".
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No prizes for guessing the name of the village passed through on the walk.
