We've had a bit of bad time with Tim with week, on Monday night when we came home from work he couldn't walk properly, and when I managed to let me have a look at his back leg I found that one of his pads a very swollen and very tender. So it was a trip to the vet's, which he's never to happy about, he can still remember when we sent him for the snip a few years ago! The vet thought it was an allergic reaction to a wasp sting, they bandaged his leg, to stop him licking his paw and gave him a course of anti-biotic's. These seemed to work and when we took the dressings off a couple of day's later the swelling had gone down loads and he was walking nearly normally.
So this mornings walk was going to be a fairly short one to see if he was fit enough for a longer walk, my plan had been to drive over to the North Yorkshire Moor's and have a walk over The Wainstone's, a place I used to climb, but hadn't been for a few years. The weather forecast was lousy again, so and early start was planned to try and beat the rain, but when I opened the curtains and looked across to the moors, which we can just about see from the house, the sky was dark and threatening already. A quick re-think and we were soon heading off along the river from the village, upstream towards the next village, Piercebridge.
It is a lovely walk through the woods and across the fields, and the village itself is also really nice, with a large green and lots of colourful cottages. This morning we also took time to have a look round the remains of the old roman fort, which is something we normally walk straight past, shame on us!
As we walked back, along the road to the house, the rain arrived, so we were glad that we hadn't gone with our original plan, the NYM are very exposed and not recommended in bad weather.
Tim got round the walk with flying colours, back to his usual self, jumping over the stiles and trying to chase a few rabbits, if he got the chance, so fingers crossed we might try a bit longer walk tomorrow!
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