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We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; So as a group of men with many various health issues we intend to do just that and prove that men do actually talk about their health issues and concerns.
Following the Covid lockdown in 2020 we have expanded to include other friends and neighbours and also friends of friends from the Wincanton, Bruton & Castle Cary area. We have been nicknamed 'The Walking Dead' by one of the groups children.
We try to get out most Saturdays for heathy walks at different locations within 30 minutes travelling time. On average we walk around 4 miles with a good bit of light hearted banter, culminating with a well earned breakfast.
Read the tales of the walks, with accompanying photos and route map and make sure you revisit for weekly updates.
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Blandford Forest
Sat 6 Dec ‘25. DH, RW, PCL, DL, JB, CH, Scrumpy & Albus The rain we dodged last weekend had certainly returned in bucket loads during the week and so with the ground damp all around the local counties I decided a walk on good forest tracks would be our best option today, it was just a question of which and where. A good trawl over the green patches on the OS map to the south of our 30 minute area, I identified a large area of woodland in which we have not previously walked so
David Hill
7 days ago5 min read
Blandford Forest
Sat 6 Dec ‘25. DH, RW, PCL, DL, JB, CH, Scrumpy & Albus The rain we dodged last weekend had certainly returned in bucket loads during the week and so with the ground damp all around the local counties I decided a walk on good forest tracks would be our best option today, it was just a question of which and where. A good trawl over the green patches on the OS map to the south of our 30 minute area, I identified a large area of woodland in which we have not previously walked so
David Hill
7 days ago2 min read
Congresbury Christmas walk rained off!
Sat 29 Nov ‘25. DH, RW, AC, PCL, DL, JB, JS, DH, SW, RC, CCL, ML, AB, JS Due to a very rainy forecast on Friday at 16.00 for Saturdaythe walk that was plan by Adrian and Ruth around Congresbury the walk was cancelled. (The route through the fields was already extremely muddy from the rain over the last few weeks). We had planned to start from the house, to the weir, past the fish and chip shop, winding around, meeting the Strawberry line and making our way back in a zig zag r
David Hill
Dec 52 min read
All’s well that ends in Wells
Sat 18 Oct 25. DH, RW, AC, DL, JB, RC & Scrumpy It was yet another week of low numbers with only three from Wincanton and just Richard from the Northern group today, so I opted for another new walking area on the edge of our self imposed time radius. Having deciphered an early morning pleas for back bags, we picked up Rich & Scrumpy up at 08.15 and had a good run across from Bruton arriving in Wells less than thirty minutes later. I had mentioned on the way over we would be m
David Hill
Oct 185 min read
Albus smells the bacon
Sat 11 Oct ‘25. DH, DL, JB, JS & Albus Another week of just four Wincanton walkers so we headed a little bit further south west than previously to the village of Norton-sub-Hamdon, which sits about half a mile below and to the west of Ham Hill Country Park. We parked up in the village hall and primary school car park and once ready to go headed off onto the open fields by the village hall. Todays route would be a clockwise loop out to the Chisleborough ridge, an area I have p
David Hill
Oct 126 min read
Sumorsæte Cider
Saturday 25th May '24 DH, BFS, PCL, DL & Albus Amazingly we have reached the end of May Bank Holiday weekend already, (where has that...
David Hill
May 25, 20247 min read
West Bay views with our ladies
Saturday 27th April ‘24. DH, BFS, PCL, DL and ladies, with Albus & Sully Only a month after original planned, just 4 of us met with our...
David Hill
Apr 29, 20246 min read
Quality not quantity
Saturday 20th April '24 DH, RW, TO, BFS, PCl, Scrumpy & Maisie For the first time in a long time we were greeted with a bright sunny...
David Hill
Apr 24, 20244 min read
A tunnel too far
Saturday 9th March ‘24. DH, RW, TO, AC, PCL, DL, CH, PCL Jnr, Scrumpy & Maisie. Todays walk was another new route for us all and the plan...
David Hill
Mar 11, 20244 min read
Sully gets back to his old tricks
Saturday 18 November ‘23 - DH, PCL, AC, TO, DL, JB, CH, Sully & Albus The forecast for today was anything but good walking weather and...
David Hill
Nov 18, 20238 min read
All aboard! Tickets please!
Saturday 15 July. DH, RW, TO, PCL, DL, JB, DC & Albus With the forecast again not being in our favour, I opted this week to venture a...
David Hill
Jul 15, 20235 min read
Reaching new heights
Saturday 1st April ’23 Chideock - Golden Cap - Seatown DH, RW, BFS, PCl, IP, DL, JB, Mrs's H, W, S, C, P, L, B, Sully, Scrumpy, Albus,...
David Hill
Apr 2, 20239 min read
Wincanton Wanderers
Saturday 28th January ‘23. DH, BFS, DL, JB, Sully & Albus With the Bruton and Cary bunch all unavailable this week, it was just one car...
David Hill
Jan 28, 20235 min read
Queen Elizabeth II - paying our respects
Wednesday 14th September 2022 I think we were all very saddened by the unexpected death of our Queen, and so Richard, Dereyk and myself...
David Hill
Sep 16, 20226 min read
Short and snappy
Saturday 2nd July DH, RW, TO, PC, PCL, DL, Tilly, Sully, Scrumpy & Bill After a couple of weeks of other things keeping us all busy, 6...
David Hill
Jul 2, 20223 min read
100 km van Ieper - Day 4
Final day started with the established routine….scrambled eggs , streaky bacon and coffee. Final chance to sneak a couple of boiled eggs...
rjtwaller
Jun 8, 20224 min read
100 km van Ieper - Day 3
The middle day of the walk is always the day the route heads west towards the French border and into the mountains, so as a precaution...
David Hill
Jun 3, 20225 min read
100 km van Ieper - Day 2
After a surprisingly sound night’s sleep, we breakfasted in the canteen on scrambled eggs and slightly dodgy bacon surrounded by bulging...
rjtwaller
Jun 3, 20224 min read
100km van Ieper - Day 1
Thursday 26th May 2022 After a couple of moths of discussion and planning the day finally came for our trip to the 100km van Ieper, a 3...
David Hill
May 30, 20226 min read
Melbury Moments
Sunday 24th April ‘22. Evershot & Melbury Park DH, RW, AC, PCL, DL, IP, DH, SW, RC, CCL, ML, JP, Sully, Scrumpy, Newton & Nimbus Behind...
David Hill
Apr 25, 20224 min read
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