We awoke to a deluge today, but by 9.30 or so it had miraculously cleared.
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We thought we’d do something not too ambitious, just a 7-mile circular from the house. The weather behaved quite well, just a touch of rain here and there, but it was still quite windy. I managed to take us west instead of east when we hit the coast path, but that was OK as it meant some beach fun for Mabel.
Some road walking later on, up to Mottistone Manor where we stumped up the admission charge to go in and have a coffee and a look around the lovely garden. Lots of dahlias, along other things.
From there, a shortcut back along rather an inhospitable road. We took the opportunity to turn left down a footpath to the military road, which as it turned out was not the coast path (as is the case further west) but just a horrible A-road. Not fun at all with Mabel, but fortunately after ten minutes or so we were able to turn off down a bridle way which took us back into Brook. A quick trip back to Brighstone Village Store to get dinner, and now a lovely hour or so sitting in the sun with a cup of tea.
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