A bit of exercise!
My Sponsored Slim ends tomorrow evening (The big weigh in is on Tuesday morning - watch this space!) so I decided a bit of execise was required today! Walking boots and cagoule on and off over the Plott, down to the canal and along the tow path to Wedgwood.
Many people have spoken to me about the state of the towpath at Meaford but I never realised just how atrocious it is. It is barely passable even in proper walking gear. I’ve walked and ran this towpath for over fifty years and it’s always been a problem - but never as bad as it is now. Thank goodness Stafford Borough Council are hoping to work up a scheme with the developers of the old Meaford Power station site, St. Modwen, and Sustrans to do something about it. This section is the last piece of the jigsaw because the towpaths out of Stone are all reasonably good and the one north of Barlaston is wonderful - all the way to Stoke. So the sooner this project gets the ‘go ahead’ the better.
So, with sodden and muddy trousers, I left the canal at Wedgwood and made my way over the fields to Barlaston where I took a break on a new seat on the Green. Imagine my delight when I read a plaque that the seat was dedicated to Jack Dando, a Parish and Borough Councillor, who died last year. Jack was a stalwart in the Stone Liberal Democrats and a dear friend to us all. I am delighted that a permanent reminder of Jack now graces the Green and enables folk to sit and enjoy a view that hasn’t changed in years and which Jack did so much to protect.
And so it was back over the Downs Banks to home where a hot bath eased some aching limbs! And afterwards I sneaked onto the scales - but you’ll have to wait until Tuesday for that bit of information!
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