We walked a stretch of the Tolkien Trail yesterday. It was lovely and there will be pictures, and once again, my luck proved true: When I went tumbling face-first down a bank above the River Hodder, nothing got devastatingly damaged, and greatest most unlikely luck of all, I did not land face-first in a patch of nettles! Considering that nettles grow rampant just about on every piece of green ground around here, that was truly lucky! Luckily, also, there were no horses to a-fright by my no-doubt... Sign in to see full entry.