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Bloxworth

2/12/2015

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2nd December 2015
Bloxworth
Ray
Ray, Clive, Peter, Rob
7.6 miles
Beside the church
​Bakers Arms  ★★
It was a somewhat dull but quite warm and pleasant day when warm we parked beside the church and set off across the road to follow a quite reasonable grassy path out into Wareham Forest.
There was one very brief burst of sunshine captured in the picture below.
We have been to Wareham Forest quite a few times so Ray did well to find quite a few tracks that we had not been on before many of them with good solid ground underfoot.  We had a look at the possibility of crossing the boggy area following the power lines in the south west corner but that very quickly became an obviously insurmountable barrier and so we looped around the edge.  We stopped for our break where there is a faint number 26 on the map.  Here we saw a pine tree that was seeping liberal amounts of sap from its trunk onto the ground.  Peter and Rob both discovered how sticky it is!
We stopped for a group photo on the edge of Woolsbarrow Fort.  We were here earlier in March this year  but at that time Clive only appeared a spectre.
It was about here that we started to speculate on the distance that this walk was going to be as all our legs were starting to feel like a rest; surprising really considering that the walk is almost entirely flat and there are only a couple of styles.
We decided to give the Bakers Arms another try for our usual late lunch and were pleasantly surprised by the excellent Chicken and Leak pie.  It was very tasty,  full of chunks of chicken and accompanied by excellent chips.  The pots of tea were a bit of a let down and seemed to have been made with lukewarm water.  This cost them half a star.
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One Burst of Sunshine
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Four Bursts of Sunshine
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