🥾 Walk 46 - North Street and Englefield Estate

This was the first of a handful of evening walks that we're doing to make the most of the light evenings. Although the majority of our members are at work during week days, in the summer months there is enough daylight to have the occasional walk after work.

I didn't make it to this walk as I was representing the Berkshire Weekend Walkers at the Ramblers Berkshire Area Committee meeting. In some ways I was grateful to be indoors as the weather was terrible! Torrential rain lasted the entire evening.

The leader told me that six brave (or were they foolhardy?) people turned up for the walk, which started in Theale. Three were regulars and three were local to Theale and trying out our group. Unfortunately for the newcomers, this was the heaviest rain we'd seen for a long time and they weren't really prepared for it. Two of them left the walk before the end, having braved it out for longer than anyone could reasonable expect. What a shame their first experience of our group was under such awful conditions. I wonder if we'll ever see them again!

Post script: Our second evening walk was much more successful. (See the description of our 50th walk.)

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