Tha Handbag Walks Part 10

In the above shadow pic, yes, I'm the one with the handbag!

It’s not that we haven’t been walking, it’s just that we’ve all been really busy, so they’ve been short walks (usually to shops, it has to be said). So this week, the plan was to actually go out of town, and breathe some country air again. What I’d forgotten is that the days are much shorter now, so setting off in the afternoon doesn’t give you a lot of time before it starts to grow dusk!

We’d only planned a short walk anyway, by the side of the Pocklington canal. It was all pretty overgrown, and the land round there is very flat, so it wasn’t the most scenic of walks, but it was pleasant.

A short distance into the walk, my mobile went. We might be out in the wilds of the East Riding, but was still the land of the mobile phone. It was work. ‘Are you listening to The Archers*? I can hear country sounds’. I explained that no, it wasn’t the radio, it was the actual country – now with added country yokel sounds from my friends. ‘Are you all wearing Barbours?’ ‘No, it’s pashminas and handbags!’

As we walked back, the light started to fade. Only one thing for it. It was time for the tea shop, and the shops of Pocklington. And a new plan. In winter when it’s too cold/wet/muddy to walk in the country, we can walk round the market towns of Yorkshire. Don't you just know that it's going to turn into more shopping!

*I’m setting aside the fact that the Chief Exec thinks I’m the sort of person who does listen to The Archers!