Sunday December 25 2011 - Kinder Scout
The forecast is poor but the actual weather turns out to be beautiful for my return to Kinder for Christmas 'dinner' (chicken sandwich & homemade fruit cake). I'm reflecting on how different it is this time compared with hunkering down amid the ice and snow a year before. This time I've chosen Madwoman's Stones as my destination, ascending via Ollerbrook. Also unlike last year I meet no one. Until I reach my lunchtime resting point and there's a fellow sitting there with choral Christmas music playing on a radio. He says he's up here every Christmas Day. We exchange Christmas greetings and a bit of chit chat but aside from him there's no sign of human life. I love it. As I said last year, it's good to be 'home' for Christmas.
