Ten years and two days ago, on 2nd January 2011, Ewan started his blog. (I didn’t start mine until two months later, inspired by Ewan.) He mentioned this in his blog post today, and noted that the four of us had a New Year’s meet up exactly a decade ago. And ten years later, this afternoon Heather, Ewan, James and I went out for a socially distanced New Year’s walk together. It was very cold and the paths at Frankfield Loch were very icy, so Heather and I were glad of our ice grips which we fitted over our trail shoes. I will tactfully draw a veil over who fell over while putting them on! We hadn’t taken a trail map and didn’t quite manage to find the correct route to our next target on the Seven Lochs trail, Bishop Loch. However it didn’t really matter; we made our way across frozen fields in the low but warming sunshine and were rewarded with sightings of roe deer and beautiful pathways and thickly frosted foliage before circling back towards Stepps. We had brought flasks and stopped for an al fresco coffee on the way, with mince pies and Christmas cake. It was a lovely afternoon.
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