Oat crumble topping...

... well worth dicking about with ingredients & flavours!

60g rolled oats

40g oat 'flour' or medium oatmeal

1/4 teaspoon salt

40g butter

60g mixed nuts / seeds / granola

30g sugar

1-2 teaspoon cinnamon / nutmeg / ginger

for savoury crumble:

substitute 1-2 teaspoon chopped herb / pepper / thyme / sage

& reduce sugar a tad if you want 

Walking: Blackshaw Moor to Leek

Took the off-road route... further than you'd think!

 

Photography: Moorlands windows

 

Walking: Tittesworth Reservoir

 Up to Leek for a few days camping & walking around The Roaches...

a grumpy lady made me go to the nearby Tittesworth Reservoir...

& wander around the whole thing! 

I was made King of the Elderly Badly-Dressed Walkers...

the grumpy lady had a lie down!

Water levels were horrifically low (in an oddly lush farming landscape)... 

The Iron Green Man can't be too happy about our environmental state-of-play...

Of course, we inadvertently wandered off the track on the way back to the site... 

but it wasn't getting lost 'cos we found the path to Leek... tomorrow!

Walking: Birthday!

By midday it was v. hot... there was beer & meaty sandwiches!

 

Walking: Coalbrookdale to Coalport, via Castle Green

Woke to a beautiful morning, 

& decided to stroll through the woods & hills of the east side of Coalbrookdale...

exploring local paths as we wended our way towards Ironbridge.

Ironbridge pasties & hot sausage rolls from Eley's on Tontine Hill are magnificent

- forget the pork pies, Jackson's Butchers in Shifnal is 6 miles away!

In truth, too hot a day for the lengthy walk: we died for a good while at the 

riverside Boat Inn at Jackfield (lovely HPA!)  Across the footbridge to Coalport...

Very brief gant around Coalport, over the roadbridge to join the Severn Way, 

then west back to the Iron Bridge...

this part of the walk is mainly tree-covered... thank the Lord!

Oddly, this is the Severn Gorge we're walking, but we never seem to have much to do with the Severn itself... stunning this evening mind!

A stop in Ironbridge - choc ices, apple & mango juice, chunky Kit-Kat - 

then a trudge through the leafy green of Captain's Coppice back to the campsite...

foregoing beer for copious water & restorative tea!

A fine walk - knackering on a sweltering day - but we did make it! 

We really must get better at pencilling in proper stops, pub lunch say 

 

Photography: Captain's Coppice, Coalbrookdale

 

Walking: Coalbrookdale to Little Wenlock

An unexpected jaunt out of Coalbrookdale.

As they're digging up all the roads in Shropshire, 

we got a tad lost among the roundabouts of south Telford...

anxiety & irritation spurred us to park up & do one!

Up Loamhole Dingle...

then onwards to The Huntsman in Little Wenlock...

Big skies... great views...

Lovely Butty Bach at the pub...

Then a bimble back to Irongorge campsite at Strethill...

great pitch too!