It was wet and windy down south – so much that the Bristol balloon festival was delayed.. and the Boardmaster festival – not that we were going – was completely cancelled so there were quite a few lost campers trundling around the south west looking for alternative entertainment… We did quite well -on a mission to find and ‘tick’ all the remaining esoteric crags on Dr Freds list and I followed with camera, sketch book and reading material in hand finding nice spots to photograph, sit and draw. We were lucky with the weather - we managed to dodge all the really bad stuff and some how find quite a lot of sunshine... We had a very pleasant walk from Frome to Mells through some ancient woodland – we were only going to do a couple of miles but got carried away chatting and wandering and ended up doing over six instead! Beautiful woodland complete with running stream, waterfalls, mill houses and some almost complete lime kilns. Made all the nicer ...