just another morning here

Mother’s day means I get to decide what we do in a day; today that meant a beautiful walk on Dartmoor, finding as many geocaches as humanly possible en route! We popped to Sainsbury’s on the way and bought treat picnic foods – ate half as brunch before we walked and the other half after our walk at around 4pm – ideal, I don’t even have to cook tonight now!

I opted for one of the newly opened Drake’s Trail walks on Dartmoor, near Burrator Reservoir These walks even have podcasts that go with them, so I added those to all the ipods for extra interest, and they were really well done, interesting and dare I say it, educational! I would definitely do the other walks in the series, even without any caches near them. This walk, however, just *happened* to be near a good 10 caches

And we took some photos (none of cache 7 or 9 though, for some reason!). Lots more on flickr for anyone interested but this is my special Mother’s Day self timer shot. I don’t actually like it as much as the one that didn’t quite work, but Steve said I had to keep this one as the lines were right.

Walking on Dartmoor is always lovely – especially beautiful on a sunny spring day like today … I think the rest of the family got bored with the caching but at least they were all easy finds and as it was Mother’s Day they weren’t allowed to moan! Poor Abbie struggled with her boots too, she only remembered half way round that they are too small for her now – she spent half the time walking along the Plymouth & Dartmoor railway in her socks! At least it wasn’t wet on the ground!

Got home and had cups of tea, baths, a bit of music practice, and I’m going to have to fold some laundry later.
For now, we’re finishing off the day by watching Casino Royale together, in anticipation of the release of Quantum of Solace this week – none of us have seen it yet and I’m going to buy it, nothing like a bit more Daniel Craig on the shelf

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