Winter walk 3

It's our Boxing Day tradition to drive to Wrotham to see the Morris men perform and act the Mummers play.

We made a slight change in custom and drove instead to Stansted (kent) to watch an earlier performance of the Hartley Morris Men. This was a less crowded venue and we were quickly served at the bar of the country pub, the Black Horse, without the usual crowds pushing and shoving, which is customery at the pub in Wrotham on Boxing Day.

After the performance we had our third rural winter walk. A new route for us, we followed the footpaths across muddy fields and woods until we got to Fairseat. My blip is of the unusual lychgate at the Holy Innocents Chapel at Fair- seat. A plaque states that the chapel was erected for the children of the convalescent home by Sir Philip Hickson Waterlow. It was consecrated in 1950.

Unusual for a Boxing Day there were very few other walkers about. In fact on our circular walk from Stansted to Fairseat we did not pass another person.

My extra shows the Morris Men - and one woman - performing in the forecourt of the Stansted pub.