Hayfield Wander & Christmas Lunch – 18/12/24
Distance: 7.5 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Weather: Wet, Windy with Dry Spells
Cliff Worthington, Steve Brearley, Alan Hart, Andy White with Berta and Alastair Cairns.
Apologies: George Dearsley (high temperature), Mark Enright (marking papers) Chris Owen (recovering from playing golf)
Non walking drinkers: Tom Cunliffe, Simon Williams, Mark Enright, Chris Owen, Jock,
Leader: White: Diarist: Cairns
Starting point: The Sportsman – Kinder Road Hayfield
Starting time: 10:15. Finishing time: 1315.
This week's Wander presented significant logistical challenges from the start. The wanderers pre-Christmas Lunch walk was scheduled to commence at 09:40 from The Sportsman public house on Kinder Road, Hayfield.
Present at The Sportsman at the designated time were Alan Hart, Andy White, Steve Brearley, Cliff Worthington, and myself. Clearly the numerous cancellations and inquiries via WhatsApp created considerable confusion for Dean, resulting in his initial postponement of the start time to 10:00 and a subsequent inability to lead the group on the walk.
At 10:15, the group proceeded to Hayfield Village to locate our leader, however, despite visiting his residence, Dean and Tommy Taylor remained unavailable. Following a group discussion, it was decided that Alan Hart would proceed independently, following the Sett Valley trail to Birch Vale for coffee before re-joining the group at the Kinder Lodge.
The remaining wanderers proceeded to Twenty Trees via Kinder Road. From there, we continued to the shooting lodge, turned right along the edge of Kinder Reservoir, and proceeded to William Clough. Crossing the stream, we followed the marked path back towards Hayfield and The Sportsman Public House on Kinder Road where Cliff kindly provided Steven and myself transportation to the Kinder Lodge while Andy walked Berta home for a clean-up before joining us at the pub.
Upon arrival at the Kinder Lodge, we joined Chris Owen, Dean Taylor, Mark Enright, and Alan for refreshments where pints of Isobar IPA were enjoyed by all before proceeding to The Sportsman where we met up with Simon Williams, Tom Cunliffe and Jock . Dean was unable to join us for lunch due to him captaining his local snooker team later that evening. Dean's snookering activities did allow him to swerve the "kangaroo court" that was in session at the Sportsman, however he should know his crimes did not go unnoticed and he will be advised of court's findings in the New Year.
There is no walk planned for next Wednesday as it falls on Christmas Day, but there was talk of a New Year's day walk from Poynton Sports Club, further details will be provided in due course.
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