Fletching

We walk from Newick to Fletching. Along public footpaths through field and nature.

Yes, we then need to walk back again...

Total distance a bit over six km.

At Fletching we stop for drinks at the Griffin Inn.

Its a Gastropub. we take our drinks to the beer garden out back,

Theres seating, tables. A covered eating area. A grill/barbecue area, just being started up, chefs preparing, wood going on the fire.

Theres a beautiful view.Quite a distant view, out over a hedge and fields, to trees and distance.

Its Saturday. Every table is reserved.

We finish our drinks and walk back to Newick.

Where we have lunch.

In the Bull on the Green pub.

We both have lamb chop, very tasty. The lamb may have been very large but its chops are tender.

Its an old pub. Exposed roof beams, I have to mind my head.

Im well prepared... after our walk, my shirt is dripping with sweat.

So I change into the dry shirt that I have carried :-)

For dessert we share a chocolate fudge brownie. Yum.

After lunch we look for a geocache.

Its in or near a small wooden -- restored -- building. It looks like a bus stop. Its an old pump house, with lever action pump inside, no longer pumping.

No sign of the cache. If its outside, too bad, the hut is surrounded by growth. Brambles and, probably, nettles.

All this green stuff is unfamiliar. We recognise brambles, blackberries. Possibly nettles. Other stuff could be anything.

We admire the flowers. bluebells, buttercups, wood anemone, other unknowns but we try to avoid touching it. We follow paths.

Theres a church in... Newick I think, or maybe Fletching... Anyway, I read about it in Wikipedia. It was built in 12th century.Something added in 13th, something else in 14th, maybe something later. Just from the outside we can see old, older and oldest stonework. Still in use, a sign at the gate gives the name and email for the current priest.

Back to the hotel. We post the cards.

Dinner is in our room, sandwiches that we bought at our lunch pub.

We have to sign that yes, we were talking away the sandwiches. It was, I guess, because the sandwiches are in a plastic takeaway container... limiting one-use containers strictly to takeaways.

And that, I think, is all. For Saturday. Our last day based in Haywards Heath.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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