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 John was waiting for me. He has a leaky heart valve which until recently has not given him to much trouble (he too is a great walker) but on Thursday he became breathless and had to visit the doctor. He has been told to rest until he sees a specialist later this month. Margaret Sargent who helps at Coombe Mill and is a very dear friend of the family had made a chicken curry which we heated in the microwave that night. |
 John felt well enough to do a little ramble outside - he wanted me to see the apple blossom in the orchard nearby. |
 This is the exponential dilution chamber. |
 This is one of the meadows at Coombe Mill. Most of the property is woodland, and it is a nature reserve owned by the Gaia Charity. My father and Sandy arrived back from a gruelling week in London and various places. My father had been awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society. He was especially pleased about that. They came home to a mountain of correspondence and emails, and had to go away again on Monday. There wasn`t really time for them to join me on Sunday`s walk, but at the last minute they decided to do so. |
 This was a hasty photo (which is why it is blurred) of them outside the Exponential Dilution Chamber, about to join me on the first part of my walk to Ashwater. Sunday was an easy day, partly because I wanted to spend time with John, and also because - if there was time - I hoped to video record my father giving his opinion about wind farms. |
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They walked with me up to Cross
Green, a couple of miles including several steep hills. I hadn`t walked
with my father for a while, and might have expected him to be slowing
down as he is nearly 87, but there was no sign of that this day, in
fact we went at a good fast pace all the way. We are all of the same opinion as far as wind farms are concerned, and they were very supportive about the walk. They photographed me at the sign post, then went back down the hill to carry on with their work, while I continued towards Ashwater. It was a warmish day, and I regretted leaving my water bottle behind. The page about Ashwater will be going up online next (or may be continued here) |
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to come page below is the test page set up before the walk |
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| Photo taken in 2004, outside the
church at Launceston. |
New photos will come, when I get home to upload them, if not before, until then here are some I took a year or so ago
 My father and John, my brother, with Jasper and Amy, their Siamese cats, in the garden. John will be joining me on a part of the walk, my Father and Sandy may also do so if they can. |
 Nearby landscape of small Devon
fields
John joined me on a walk around the Fullabrook Down site last year, and has a sketch on the pinboard page called Early wasp |