{"id":4320,"date":"2020-07-14T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:49:01","slug":"tnr-09-07-2020-return-to-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/?p=4320","title":{"rendered":"TNR 09-07-2020 : Return to Base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Butty’s Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Words by Pete, Photos by Lee, Butty, Croxy & Pet<\/em>e\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owl photos are Butty\u2019s from Friday 10th<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crew<\/strong> : Coley, Lee, Bern, Chris, Troll, Butty, Pete, 3sheds, Croxy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conditions<\/strong> : Mild, wet under tyre and foot \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Route<\/strong> :\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stoneyfold , Zig Zags, Teggs Nose , Bottoms Reservoir , Leathers (to order), Charity La, Forest Chapel , part tarmac, mostly forest descent , The Leathers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Leathers was the last pub we visited before Lockdown – so it felt fitting that it should be our first destination now that Bozza has given the signal for them to re-open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El presidente had made reservation direct with \u201cJohn The Barman\u201d the week earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And our special guest star this week was Coley .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a fairly regular route this week , with the exception of some deviation on the rear entry of Teggs (ooh err missus) where I believe someone had a minor off. As I had chickened out to a more conventional, classic descent I have no more details to add. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A brief  stop at the Leathers to order nosh (and although tempting..we had no cheeky half) and then along wind up through the forest to Charity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charity was like a minor river ..and opinion was divided as to whether this made it more fun or just gave you a very damp @rse . For me, despite the resultant wet keks , it was a \u201cproper descent\u201d of Chazza. Leaving one with a big cheesy grin .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Forest Chapel we took the tarmac road back towards the Leathers ..but barely 25 yards down we caught sight of a barn owl flying over the field to the left – its light\u00a0 colour making it very visible in the evening light. We were treated to about 5 to 10 minutes of a pair of owls flying up and down the dip in the field to our left. I caught quite a bit on my iPhone. But Butty\u2019s photos here (from Friday night when he returned with his proper camera and zoom)\u00a0 are just brilliant .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Butty’s photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Down to Bob\u2019s bench where Coley reveals a fine taste in whiskey \u2026 then on to The Leathers where John welcomes back with (socially distanced) open arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Butty’s photo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bern’s photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gammon, Egg and Chips \u2026marvellous . I am admonished for drinking Moretti (and not Pedigree) \u2026but it gets worse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some concoction of cooking whisky & Guinness known as \u201cNora\u2019s Revenge\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think Nora took her revenge in the form of a downpour which drenched me and Butty on the trip North .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Croxy’s deer photo – spotted as he left the pub
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But it was great to be back .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words by Pete, Photos by Lee, Butty, Croxy & Pete\u00a0 Owl photos are Butty\u2019s from Friday 10th\u00a0 Crew : Coley, Lee, Bern, Chris, Troll, Butty, Pete, 3sheds, Croxy Conditions : Mild, wet under tyre and foot \u00a0 Route :\u00a0 Stoneyfold , Zig Zags, Teggs Nose , Bottoms Reservoir , Leathers (to order), Charity La, Forest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tnrs-2020","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-finder.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}