After last week's grey weather and snow, we had some lovely sunshine this weekend and it may well explain the good turnout. We had 29 people on today's walk. A pretty good number considering that the Berkshire Walkers 20s & 30s group also had a walk on the same day.
The walk started at the recreation ground on Albert Road and headed west through a very long and somewhat overgrown alley way before leaving the built up area for Blagrave Farm and Caversham Heath Golf Course.
Some people think that an alley way can be used as a rubbish dump! Apart from the usual non-biodegradable plastics, we saw all sorts of things from coconuts to rubber chickens, and we also found the dreaded Japanese knotweed growing there!
We crossed the golf course and into farmland, following some very muddy paths north-west to Tinker's Green, where we turned east and headed toward the A4074 main road and to the Packhorse pub.
We stopped off at the Packhorse for a drink and the weather was just about warm enough for us to sit outside the pub.
Suitably refreshed, we set off east through Bardolph's Wood, then south to Tokers Green and then east again through Dysons Wood Farm.
We descended into a valley between Dysons Wood and Tanner's Lane, then back up the other side where we stopped for our picnic lunch. It was quite pleasant sitting on the sunny side of valley but the wind reminded us that it was still January.
After lunch we headed south through Bugs Bottom and Hemdean Bottom back into town. There was plenty of mud on the way. We then took an urban route through Caversham Heights back to the recreation ground where we'd started. See our route on Google Maps.
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