{"id":26882,"date":"2022-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26882"},"modified":"2022-10-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T05:00:00","slug":"unexpected-bonus-friday-14th-october-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/10\/14\/unexpected-bonus-friday-14th-october-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Bonus – Friday 14th October 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unexpected bonus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I had an unexpected bonus. When Mum asked where I\u2019d like to go for a walk on Sunday, one of the places I came up with was Oakley Wood near Leamington Spa. We both like woodland walks so I thought Mum might say yes. Anyway, she got quite excited when she saw it and said we didn\u2019t need to wait until Sunday. So that was where we went for our walk yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakley Wood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The wood is part of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and covers 48 hectares. It\u2019s a bit strange as it surrounds the crematorium. You wouldn\u2019t actually know that once your there. There is a sign in the car park asking you not to do too much barking, or something along those lines, but otherwise you\u2019d have no idea. For the record, I didn\u2019t bark once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woods are mixed pine and deciduous. The smell of the pine as we started out was amazing. Even Mum was sniffing the air to take it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choice of Paths<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are two routes. They are both well marked and have good paths through the wood. The red one is the longer of the two, so that\u2019s the one we did yesterday. One day Mum says we can do them both, one after the other. The red route was two miles, which fitted nicely to the time we had free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I loved it there. We both did. It reminded me a little of the woods on my mountain in Switzerland. Mum and I had a lovely time talking about the times we\u2019ve spent there and hoping we will be back there again soon, but I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a number of other dogs around to say hello and one man who gave me lots of fuss, which I enjoyed as much as the next dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I just can\u2019t wait for the next trip over there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s walk was an Unexpected Bonus. Wilma has found a new place to add to her list of favourites – the list is growing.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-26882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warwickshire","tag-warwickshire","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}