Walks and Rambles: Ogden Reservoir

Well yesterday was a total wash out for walking – it just rained all day. Today is slightly better and my daughter suggested we have a walk around Ogden Reservoir, so I jumped at the opportunity to get out in the fresh air.

As usual parking was tricky – everywhere was really busy – obviously lots of families had the same thoughts, they had been cooped up inside all day yesterday and today was a day to get out there so the children and dogs could run around and use up that excess energy.

I was the first to arrive and about 10 minutes later the gang rolled up along with Bernard (the dog) a crazy labradoodle!

All the children were in their wezzles (wellingtons) good job too cos the path was a muddy track from the off. Well apart from Albert who is too little and was snugged up with his Mum in his baby sling. George had his Hobbit bag with him – today he was a Hobbit. Aggie had her owl puppet from school to take it on an adventure.

I have to say it was pretty cold walking around there, we didn’t linger too much – and I lost track of the number of times Aggie said she wanted it noted that she wasn’t enjoying this walk and she really had ice cubes in her wellingtons.

There were lots of Christmas trees stacked around the edge of the reservoir providing good habitat and shelter for wildlife. It looks really well and in keeping with the environment – good recycling.