What’s better than good friends, good weather and good exercise?
The views up at Will’s Neck, the Quantocks’ highest point (about 15 minutes’ drive from Spring Cottage) were fabulous at the weekend. As clear as clear can be. When it’s like this, you can see Exmoor to the south and the Bristol Channel and the Welsh coast to the north.
Apparently Will’s Neck is a Marilyn or a type of ‘relative hill’. I find this hilarious.
I don’t know why more people don’t come up here, although I’m glad that they don’t. Even on such a lovely day we only passed about ten people all morning.
It isn’t always like this at an altitude of 1,261 ft (384 m) – for reference, Spring Cottage itself is at 210 m (I talked a lot of rubbish about this to my friend at the weekend and got my Imperial and metric measurements completely confused). It’s often shrouded in low cloud and drizzle up here, and it can be very windy, like the last time I was up here, when it was possible to believe that you were completely lost. And not everyone was having good weather either, as we could see in the distance below.
I took these pictures with my phone, which is rather unpredictable. I’ve kind of given up taking my DSLR out with me these days, particularly when I go to places I’ve been before. Perhaps it’s time for a smaller camera?
So beautiful, despite the weather. We drove along a rather tricky little road (marked Unsuitable for Motor Vehicles, although we met several) through the Great Wood the other day – stunning!
There are so many roads that say they are unsuitable that aren’t. On the other hand, my car is covered in damage from reversing into hedges, and gates. At least I haven’t ended up in a ditch…yet.
Hi there,
Your blog has just sent my Google Reader 13 of your entries dating between August and October 2010. Not that I mind, I just wondered if you knew? I tried to email you but I think that you might have changed your address.
Hello,
Thank you! I’ve been reordering some of my categories and it keeps pinging me old comments so I think there is a bug that thinks there are new posts. Very annoying.
I haven’t changed my email address.
Not to worry! I have just been sent 24 more…
This is the email address I tried springcottageblog @btinternet.com and I was told that there was no match. You might need to check that.
Happy re-arranging!
Oh no! I’m going to have to write an apology post. I am sorry. You’ve got a space before the @ symbol, perhaps that’s why?
That might explain it but I copied and pasted from your side bar…
I don’t suppose that regular readers will mind getting extra posts.
Ah, then that will be because there must be an invisible space where the address breaks over the line. I’ll see if I can fix that. Thanks for being my glitch catcher today.
My pleasure; sorry to hear that you’ve been unwell, recover very soon!
Thanks. Have a lovely weekend. x