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The start of this final evening walk of the year was characterised by a new walking procedure termed the Yo-Yo. What happens is that the leader suddenly decides that the correct turning has been bypassed, everybody retraces their steps and climbs over the designated stile, whereupon the leader consults the map and decides all was correct in the first place. Everybody climbs back over the stile and goes back along the route they were taking originally. This innovation was received with such rapture that it was repeated, in a slightly less pronounced fashion, later on in the walk. It was quite fitting that the last of a very successful summer of evening walks should be attended by seventeen people and that the spirit of good fellowship and fun was carried through to the end. It was unfortunate though that the staff at the Queens Head seemed to have very little interest in serving us and unfortunately the majority of people lost the will and went home unrefreshed. Thanks to Julia for the walk and being the unfortunate butt of my humour. 12/08/10

Janet reports: "There were ten of us and it was a good walk of about 11 miles - a bit of Bewl Water which was looking lovely and quite full, some woodland paths, some ups and downs and farmland and country lanes with lunch stop at Wadhurst and then the Limden valley back to Ticehurst." 15/08/10

Another visit to Bewl Water today, but another part on this occasion. There were nine of us out today and David substituted for Carol as leader. The walk was very varied and most enjoyable and included some paths that many of us, me included had not actually walked before. There was an unwelcome guest for lunch, in the shape of a very boisterous Golden Retriever who didn't seem to know the meaning of the word NO and whose owner was nowhere to be seen, but eventually she did turn up and retrieve her dog. It was overcast all day but apart from a little light drizzle after lunch it stayed dry. 17/08/10

Eight of us enjoyed being thoroughly blown about on top of the Downs today in the company of Stephen. The idea of the walk was for us to be butterfly spotting in the warm August sunshine, however I think that today most butterfly flights were grounded, although we did see quite a few in the odd places that were out of the wind. The sun did shine and we did find a secluded spot, in the sun, for lunch. Stephen accrued some additional brownie points by introducing me to some new paths, but lost a few by enhancing the latter part of his walk with the yo-yo phenomena. All in all a day well spent.24/08/10

I have to say at the outset "Julia and Con, Marjorie would have been proud of the number of loops you managed to include in this walk". There were a magnificent 21 people out on this splendid walk today and although the sun didn't really make much of an effort everybody had a really good time. A special welcome to Anya who joined us on a "testing the water" basis, and I think we acquitted ourselves well and we hope to see her again before long. It was good to see Christine again on one of her trips down from the far north. The highlight of the walk was inspecting the restoration of the ancient culvert in Strawberry Wood, for anybody who would like more information on the history and the restoration, this is a useful website http://www.khwp.org.uk/community-projects/strawberry-wood-culvert For some reason only on of the videos can be found on the preceding site, if you would like to watch both of them go to this site http://1stcar.highweald.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=22 29/08/10