Extract from Good Friday, 3rd April, 1980:

Oh! What a beautiful morning!

Vicci, Jim-the-Vet, Harris and I set out at eight of the clock for Edenham, where we parked in the car park of the Five Bells. We walked back through the village and turned right up the road past some terraced cottages.

Harris and I described to J-t-V (with boring frequency) how we had previously pursued an arduous course up the old roilway line. I said the road was not a through one, and eventually followed the course of the old roilway, which Harris hotly contested. We eventually turned North at a point where the road had almost (but not quite) merged with the roilway, so the point is not proven.

We passed through the oak wood and down to Creeton, then up through Counthorpe and the green lane, while the 125s (125 mph expresses on the Great Northern Roilway) buzzed around like flies.

Then we crossed the Glen, and ho! for Swineshead; whence through Grimsthorpe Park following signs saying "PF", which Harris says is a Public Footpath. Vicci & I, being of a more abstruse genre, prefer to believe it to be a spoonerism ~ pootfath.

Back at the pub George and J, plus Hector, Minnie and (for the first time) Max, were waiting for us in the garden. The first Pint proving a cloudy gel, our Host dispensed a further round on the house, which we dispatched with an ease born of many years of assiduous study.

The AGM was held at my house that evening, with a showing of
"Canine Universal ~The Movie".

Extract from Sunday, 6th April, 1980:

Harris, Vicci and I walked up the lane to Cheeseman's Farm, our sticks going click,click . . . . . . . click . . click . . . . . . click . . . . . click, until after a count of six, when they went click,click again. From this we deduce that Ever-so-little-Harris takes seven steps to my six!

Extract from Sunday, 4th May, 1980:

A wonderful sunny morning, but with a cool east wind. George was away, but Harris, Jim-the-Vet, Vicci and I walked from Nassington hill top through Elton, Eaglethorpe, Fotheringhay and back.

The countryside was redolent with wild flowers and lambs: Harris and Jim talking learnedly and volubly about matters medical, veterinary and botanical ~ Vicci and I listened in awe.