Dartmoor Magazine

Editor said...

I have been dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century: I have to write a blog! For those of you used to following such things I need to tell you that I won't be blogging on a daily basis, but will post news items as and when I receive them, and add information about 'things Dartmoor' that I come across. I will attempt to add something every week, but will only do it if I have something interesting to share. With that last comment in mind I spent a pretty grim hour or so on the moor west of Fernworthy Forest last week with a small group en route to take a look at restoration work on Winney's Down, part of the five-year Dartmoor Mires Project, the launch of which was reported on in issue 102 Spring 2011. And whereas the weather at home was reasonably clement, high winds, rain and low visibility made the trip less than easy! I plan to go out there again later this month with Frances Cooper, DNPA's Mires Project Officer, to take some photos which will appear in an update on the project in the autumn issue of the magazine. The contrary nature of Dartmoor's weather was proven yet again two days later when, on a glorious sunny and breezy day, I walked from Postbridge to Fur Tor in the very heart of the moor with DNPA Guide Debbie Jenkin and a small group. Apart from the fact that we came across a very distressed South Devon heifer who seemed incapable of standing (reported to Jane Cole, Livestock Protection Officer, via the HMVC) the day was perfect: good company, wonderful weather and an interesting route via Sandy Hole Pass and Cut Hill, and back via Brown's House. A search for the Fur Tor letterbox, however, proved fruitless... Until next time.