The weekend's theme was "stone" and today, this did not augur well for Neville Haar. His recent shows of speed were penalised and his handicap was increased by a stone, to be carried in his pack.
Dean's flag for the day is a little cryptic and very well researched: £14 ( i.e. a stone in the old imperial units of weight). But the note and coins adding up to the £14 are English as we discarded that currency nearly 50 years ago, and I don't think we ever had a £2 coin.
The morning briefing saw Morris Minus being scandalously awarded to Robert Alcock for his meritorious act. Robert drove to collect Coral and Judith after they went back to find MM, whom they had lost. Big deal! Obviously losing the E2E-1 mascot is a hugely notorious incident, and one without parallel in the history of the Friends. On any other day, such an infamous occurrence would have seen the perpetrators awarded MM for the rest of the year. However, by implacably exercising their casting vote in the face of overwhelming opinion, Coral and Judith avoided the further notoriety of carrying the monkey on their packs on consecutive days.
Then it was off to Hallett, with the wind farm always visible and sometimes audible, even from several kilometres away. Some open country to walk today, but then lots of road walking later. A cloudy but fine day, we walked 19.8 km, a good part of that on dirt road.
Cathy Kelly and Jane Haar have a chat while waiting to re-group.
Morning tea was on the side of a road.
I don't think they had this in mind when they planted it.
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| Margaret Schmidtke wore her stones |
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| Michael Middelton took a stone age view of things |
Lunch was on the side of another road.
As we approached Hallett, the silo had been clearly visible from quite a distance. The other smaller buildings were not as prominent, but spoke of the past importance of the railway at Hallett.
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