You can't win 'em all!!!

We regularly try out new walks with a view to adding them to one of our itineraries.

We have been looking at the maps of East Devon and West Dorset, inland from Lyme Bay.
Yesterday's prospecting trip was an opportunity for the whole family to have a walk together.

The walk in question was inland from lovely Branscombe. The portents were not good as we drove down through Dorset in thick fog. The fog persisted into our walk, so we were unable to judge the views, but the underfoot conditions were awful and we decided very quickly that we would not be adding this to our list of self-guided walks. All four human beings in the party were fairly glum, but no such issues existed for Phoebe, the spaniel, who had a fantastic time jumping in and out of pools and streams.

Beautiful Branscombe never disappoints, so after a walk along the coast and a lovely hot drink and afternoon snack in the National Trust 'Old Bakery Tearoom' the humans cheered up too.

We never look at a 'failed' prospecting trip as a waste of time - if you don't look, you don't know. This follows the principle from the old advertising slogan for tinned salmon - 'It's the fish John West reject that make John West the best'. I suspect that readers will need to be above a certain age to remember that one!