Kettleshulme

In attendance: Len Stubbs, Peter Walker, Alan Liv. Jones, Iain McCallum, Alan Hyde Jones, Bob Haynes, Dave Wylie, Julie 0'Regan, Sue Brooke, Alan Peck, Brian Taylor, Neville McMillan, Roger Dyke, Sheena Hendrie, Lester Payne, Phil Ramsbottom, Trish Cranston, Mike Graves, Sabina Cosulich, Frank Williams, Margaret Williams, Linda Crossley, Lorna Marsland, Andrew Croughton, Derek Seddon, Joe Flynn, Al Metelko, Jenny Varley, Ken Beetham, Dave Dillon, Ethel Hallam, Pat Holt, Richard Holt, Jim Gregson.

 

Another very good KMC response to Len's kind invitation to hold a Kettleshulme Meet, reminding him that the club he helped to found in those post-war years is still prospering and repaying his continuing interest in its affairs.

The walk was blessed with a day of sparkling weather and seemed to be deemed about right in length and pace, taking a figure-8 route to revisit some old haunts along and adjacent to the Taxal/Windgather/Goyt/Shining Tor/Cat and Fiddle axis. People were free to exercise their own options as to timing for the return leg, with a few even diverting for a swift Windgather route en route. As promised very little bog was encountered despite the downpours of the previous day. Everybody safely gathered at Paddock Close as darkness fell to continue conversations in the warmth while enjoying the splendid commissariat so ably overseen by the generosity of Len, Ethel, Pat and Richard. News and memories were exchanged in a friendly atmosphere as the day drew to a close.

Jim Gregson