Smiling through the rain

This morning it started misty and stayed like that until gradually  giving way to drizzle. A couple of months ago we had arranged to go on a walk today with an ex colleague of  mine, and his  brother. As my friend is still working, and this is his day off, I didn't want to postpone the walk, so we did a wet and muddy five mile hike around Preston Candover, a village a few miles south  of Basingstoke .The upsides of the walk were that it was mild 9C, it was very quiet, we had good conversation, we didn't  get lost, or fall over in the mud, and we had a terrific lunch in the Purefoy Arms afterwards. (A cup of  homemade parsnip soup and Welsh rarebit on ciabatta, and  Doom Bar bitter). 

This evening we did an online YouTube Ukulele  class with our teacher, so it's been a good day.