Time for a good, long walk with my camera over my shoulder in unfamiliar territory.
I drove north up the M1 motorway to Junction 41 - but from there I wasn't heading east into Wakefield. My destination was just to the west - the village of East Ardsley. Beforehand I had checked out Google Streetview and planned to park close to St Michael's Church.
With boots double tied to prevent the laces from unravelling, I checked out the churchyard before embarking on the circular route I had planned with the aid of this Ordnance Survey map:-
The walk took me under the motorway then west along Blind Lane past Haigh Hall Spring Wood before circumnavigating Ardsley Reservoir which you can see left of centre. Then along Westerton Road and back round to the church - the symbol for which you might be be to spot just to the east of the word "Ardsley".
I had some sustenance on my way. In the reservoir car park I bought a small vanilla cone from the ice cream van and from the "Tesco Express" on Westerton Road I bought a pint of milk which I guzzled while sitting on the wall outside.
I felt happily weary as I drove back down the motorway, listening to radio news of a horrible assault upon two Jewish men down in London. Apparently, it involved a knife and an attacker with a history of mental illness and that second fact made me wonder why what happened was judged to be a terrorist attack - but hey, I'm just a simple guy. What do I know?
The first picture and the images below should give you some sense of both today's walk and the weather that drew me out there.
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