Above you can see our lovely daughter Frances. I snapped that photograph earlier today as I walked with her above Edale on the edge of the Kinder Plateau. Below there's an impressive gritstone pedestal which looks down upon Grindsbrook Clough. It was next to the path we took to walk back to the village of Edale.
This wasn't entirely a leisurely country walk, more of a training walk for Frances who will be undertaking a much longer walk in early June - to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK. Her longer walk will see her taking in Yorkshire's "Three Peaks" - Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-Y-Ghent - twenty six miles in total. It is quite a big ask for someone who spends the majority of her working time sitting at a computer screen or talking on the telephone. So today - as she was home - we went out into the Peak District to test her new boots and tackle six arduous miles.
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My Kathy is doing a sponsored bike ride for the same charity next year in Vietnam with colleagues from Chesterfield Royal. She too is training hard! Good luck to Frances.
ReplyDeleteWell that's nothing! I will be swimming up the Amazon, wrestling a great white shark and scaling Everest to raise funds for Oxfam.
DeleteGood on her! Best wishes for the training and the walk Frances.
ReplyDeleteThe perfect trainer in Dad.
Yes - perfect trainer - whistle, megaphone, shell suit and headband.
DeleteObviously she takes after Shirley
ReplyDeletePretty lass
Time to get an appointment at Specsavers Earl - Her loveliness is derived directly from her father.
DeleteGood luck. It's a record that has stood for far two long. 2h 29m set in 1976.
ReplyDeleteI hope it is dry. Pen-Y-Ghent to Whernside is soul destroying in wet weather.
Yes Adrian. I will be keeping my fingers crossed that she hits upon a nice day. I have never done that walk myself but I have been up Pen-Y-Ghent.
DeleteStunning scenery! I hope your daughter will find many sponsors for her walk, and enjoy it as doing something useful and fun at the same time (if she is one of those who, like myself, find walking/hiking fun).
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