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Doing it the Dartmoor way
Right in the middle of quite a built up residential area sits Coombe Valley nature reserve. It’s a ten minute walk away from work and easily accessible during a lunchtime walk or an after work walk. It seems to be a little hidden gem within Teignmouth and despite there being quite a few people walking their dogs or letting their children play on the many items of play equipment, I wonder just how many of the Teignmouth population actually know that it is there. Now however, it is a fabulous little family oriented place full of interesting things like rope bridges, wooden sculptures and pond teeming with life.
Despite working at Trinity School for over 4 years, I have never ventured up to Ideford Common until this month. It is a little bit like a flat Exmoor, as you can get some great sea views whilst being in the middle of moorland surrounded by gorgeous gorse bushes. It holds SSSI status (site of special scientific interest) and has a wealth of features to keep us all interested. It’s always good to explore new places and this one is definitely on the list to return to and maybe even to bring a Bronze DofE group to.
The current reasons for navigation skill fade are obvious as we slowly creep out of lockdown number 3. None of us have been able to get out onto the hill as much as we would like and our maps and compasses have gathered a fair bit of dust since local walks are all we are currently allowed. Obviously all skills will diminish a little with lack of use and we are very aware that in order to lead groups of teenagers, run navigation courses and lead night walks, we must make sure our skills are up to date and well practised. If you’re feeling that your navigation is a bit rusty now after lack of use through lockdown get in touch and join us on one of our navigation courses.
Once we had both (not at the same time) finished sleeping in our new tiny 6×3 shed, we filled it with shelves, filled the shelves with garden stuff, and set about dismantling the old shed. I generally don’t mind spiders outdoors, am ‘in charge’ of them when B1 and I go camping, and have great conversations with the ones that live (and hopefully eat bugs) in my greenhouse. Their new accommodation was slightly easier to find, earthworms to the garden, brandling or tiger worms (little red ones) to the wormery. I’ve since discovered that leopard slugs are great (but very slow) hunters, enjoy munching on other slugs, and have a few frightening copulation habits.