Some walks weren't meant to be

On a soggy bank holiday Monday Theia and Mnemosyne set off on a walk that took in a bit of incline and a bit of riverside walking. As they set off the riverside walking was looking questionable, although the flood warnings had been removed and the environment agency said levels were dropping the continuous rain suggested otherwise, but they had a backup plan.

The incline was found to be gentle, you can't expect much else in Oxfordshire, and soon they were walking back downhill and through a wooded glade with a carpet of bluebells.

Afterwards the mud began, well its not a proper walk without mud, then came the first detour. Now neither Theia or Mnemosyne minds walking through a field with livestock, although both would prefer not to but the view over the first stile looked a little closer to nature than either of the titans want to get...

The next path to get them back on course looked waterlogged, although the inhabitants were further away. The titans decide to take this as a sign to change course and go to the backup plan. Things went OK for a while but after following the next path they'd found the landowner had replaced the stile with a barbed wire topped fence. An alternative exit was found but by this point our titans had been rained on and thwarted for a couple of hours and with one set of boots found to be having issues with water, enough was enough. There will be more opportunities for training...