We drove to Shearsby today. There were no apples today which was a shame. An old man chatted to us and told us about the church and the village. He said the roof was replaced but was too heavy for the walls so they had to be replaced too. His wifes bequest paid for 4 lead urns to be placed at the corner of the tower to act as lightning conductors. The church was still locked so we looked round the churchyard and then continued our walk.
We walked across fields towards Bruntingthorpe and then towards Peatling Magna. There were lots of cows but they were mainly black and white dairy cows so were well behaved. There was also one field with big cows and a huge bull but they were quite good and the bull ignored us!
We had ham rolls at the Cock Inn and then walked to Willouby Waterleys where we left the Leicestershire Round and diverted off our planned route to find a geocache. It was nicely hidden under a rotten stump by an oak tree. On the computer it showed that it had last been found in late August but the logbook showed that someone had been there that morning. Its amazing to think that these boxes are hidden all over the place and you don't realise wh else might be hunting for them. We found a travel bug in the box which belonged to a young girl in Holland and so we took that to move onto another nice cache so she can follow its travels. We followed the road to Peatling Parva where we looked round the church (most of the churches have been locked along this part of the route) and then went through new woodland, farms and a newly ploughed field back to Shearsby where we saw a hot air balloon hovering over the trees.
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