The walks featured on this site will hopefully provide you with a number of things ... exercise, fresh air, good company, good pubs, many fine views and take you through many beauty spots that will make most people glad to be out in the open air.
But one of the biggest advantages of going on a country walk is that they also provide an opportunity to discuss matters of great importance at a gentler – and quieter – pace than that usually encountered in pubs and other public debating areas.
The following subjects have been discussed and the following questions have been asked (usually with no proper answer) during walks featured here and we recommend them for further debate:
• Whatever happened to white dog poo?
• Why do Swedish cars HAVE to have their lights on all the time?
• Why do strangers who pass you on a country walk say “hello”, yet they ignore you if you meet in the street?
• What EXACTLY is marriage all about?
• Why do people who play golf wear woolly v-neck jumpers with logos on them?
• Why do people play golf?
• Why do people take up refereeing sport?
We have also debated such topics as why supermarkets periodically change their aisle layouts , why some pubs don't sell scratchings, why women ask if they can join us on our annual Lakes Gentlemen's Smoking Weekend and then decide they can't go anyway because they are going shopping.
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS (more suggestions welcome ... please send them in via the message board)
Clarty (paths etc) – muddy, slippery, bound to dirty the boots.
Growler – pie (usually pork).
Divvies – people who are, or look, daft, soft, stoopid or similar.
Scratchings – pig skin, with the fat on, cut into small pieces and cooked at a very high temperature. Guaranteed to harden those arteries the pies have missed.
WARNING: if you are trying any of our walks on any days other than Saturday and Sunday, beware of pubs that are not open on lunchtimes. A recent midweek jaunt reduced three researchers to tears when they found THREE pubs with locked doors.