It was only a week ago I wrote about it not yet seeming like spring for publication in the May issue of Chilham Parish News , and now we are having the hottest April days in decades! This is not good walking weather, but I think these are freak conditions, and there's a good chance that 7th May will be somewhere in between. Being a countryside walk there is something to enjoy in all weathers that usually occur this time of year provided you are suitably dressed for what

As I write this on 12th April it hardly seems like spring, being damp & misty, but I’ve been trying to walk a few miles every day to get fit enough to enjoy this year’s fundraising walk as I have done since it started. But as I’m now eighty I’m not going to try the whole 16 miles, instead I plan to start from Bought Aluph & finish at Chilham church to enjoy the refreshments. Provided there have been enough volunteers to prepare and serve them there should be enough food le