Little Legs

Totternhoe Knolls - Friday 3 July 2015

We've moved and we're exploring our new area! It's beautiful and full of lots of new flowers and butterflies to learn to recognise. Unfortunately though we fall on the join between four OS maps so it's been an expensive outlay!

For our walk today we followed a circular walk from the Totternhoe Knolls NT carpark to the end of the village and back again past the lime works and nature reserve. This was a route on the geocaching website called "Totternhoe Totterings";  we managed to find 11 of the 13 caches on this route!

Zoë took a little convincing to go for a walk and spent the first 10 minutes or so asking to home, but after a while she enjoyed herself. She especially enjoyed looking for the geocaches and sitting on the wooden sofa at the end of the walk!


As I mentioned above we've been starting to discover lots of new wildflowers and insects. Flowers are relatively easy to take pictures of, but I've been less successful with the insects as they just don't let me get close enough with my camera phone. Next time I go out I'll take my proper camera and hopefully I can use the zoom to catch some pictures of bees and butterflies. But until then here are three of the flowers we've discovered...

Common Spotted Orchid

Wild Sweet Pea

Birdsfoot Trefoil

This photo was taken by Zoë as she wanted to photograph a bee sucking the nectar from the flowers. You can just about spot the bee just left of the centre of the picture... Zoë is developing a real interest in taking photos; some are better than others, but I like to give her the opportunity when I can. Maybe we should think about getting her her own camera for her birthday so she can snap away to her heart's content?!

This was quite a walk for my little legged Zoë but she walked all but about 1/2 mile. I had to carry her for a short section due to the head height stinging nettles that she very vocally declined to walk past! Caleb also enjoyed walking a short way once we were nearly home. He'd love to walk more but currently has absolutely no sense of direction so is a bit of a liability...

Exhausted little people!

Date: Friday 3 July 2015

From: Home - circular route
To: Home
Distance: 3.3 miles
Total Ascent: 324ft
Route Description: Bridleway, field footpath
Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes
Ave Speed: 1.24mph
Weather: Hot and sunny
Region: Bedfordshire
Walking With: Zoë and Caleb
Path: local footpath

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AR14 - Dinton village - Monday 20 April 2015

Walk 14

Date: Monday 20 April 2015
From: Dinton
To: Fields near Ford Village
Distance: 2 miles
Total Ascent: ?
Route Description: Field footpaths
Duration: 1 hours 30 minutes
Ave Speed: ?
Weather: Hot and sunny
Region: Buckinghamshire
Walking With: Pip
Path: Aylesbury Ring