2010 Newsletter

• From the Chairman
• Slipping on banana skins...
• The Mortimer Trail May 2010
• Footpath Diversions and Other Matters
• The Walks Leader is your friend
• Oxford Transport Plan
• Residential visit to Longmynd, Church Stretton, Shropshire 2010
• Annual Skittles Evening 2001 - 2010
• Obituary: Anneke Siertsema 1938 - 2010
• Walking in a Winter Wonderland
• A Weekend in Lancashire, August 2009
• OFS Donation to the Chiltern Society Donate a Gate scheme
• Footpaths and Railway Lines
• Committee Members

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

On the morning of Saturday 9th January 2010 Oxford woke to around six inches of snow, a temperature of -5°C and a beautiful cloudless sky. Being walks leader that day I was not going to fail to be at the 10 o'clock meeting point. You know me - I turned up on my bicycle. Godfrey was perhaps rather more sensible in his 4x4 car, but then he is used to 'real weather' in Scandinavia!!

Walking in snow Photo: Robert Yates

It might have been early January, but how often does OFS set off on a walk looking more like a ski club? The walk is a favourite of mine, being a canal lover, but I have never seen Hampton Gay Manor looking more beautiful. I am just sorry that more people did not enjoy it.