Venue: Threave House, Isfield to Uckfield
Walkers: Mrs & Capt P!
Weather: Snowy and cold - what else?
Distance: About 5-6 miles
Time taken: 4 hours including an hour's visit to Tesco and bumping (almost literally) into friends
Pluses: Stunningly beautiful winter wonderland
Minuses: Unable to navigate due to white out!
As we woke to over a foot of snow, we decided to get some fresh air and walk across the fields into town (Uckfield) for some supplies. It's a very pretty and relatively easy walk but this time we decided to take another route/shortcut which we were pretty confident with . . BAD mistake! We hadn't realised just how much of the sineage had been obliterated with the snow and also how hard it made it when we realised we had taken the wrong direction 
and had to trudge back through knee deep snow. It wasn't helped by incorrect and missing signs from the farmers (thank you very much). However, we reckon it only added about half and hour to the time taken into town and it was absolutely beautiful. We were the only mad people out and about so we were walking through virgin snow - just a few deer and bird tracks and some lovely views. It was also so quiet, hardly a sound to be heard.
and had to trudge back through knee deep snow. It wasn't helped by incorrect and missing signs from the farmers (thank you very much). However, we reckon it only added about half and hour to the time taken into town and it was absolutely beautiful. We were the only mad people out and about so we were walking through virgin snow - just a few deer and bird tracks and some lovely views. It was also so quiet, hardly a sound to be heard.
Having finally made it to town we dived into Tescos where predictably there was very little left on the shelves, but we did at least manage to get a few fresh veggies for our dinner. Loaded up the rucksacks, and set off for home. We then bumped into a number of friends before finally heading off back over the fields. Much easier journey this time as we had our old tracks to follow! However, in the first field we crossed Mrs P managed to take a tumble head first into a snow drift - much laughter from her caring husband! but was soon back on my feet until almost reaching the road to our house when I managed to slide off a snow covered bank and once again ended up in the white stuff! But - I had the last laugh as Alan needed to answer the call of nature and did exactly the same as me - I was, of course, all sympathy . . .
Arrived back home just in time to thaw out and have a restorative glass of chilled vino - brrrr! but most welcome! Cheers!
Hope you've all coped OK with the snow and are not housebound, and fingers crossed it's cleared by Tuesday - hope to see you all then!
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