We drove to Foxton Locks and parked in the carpark. We discovered that John had put the wrong walk into the GPS but luckily we had the guide book and maps with us. We walked along the locks and the canal and found that my camera wouldn't work. The batteries were flat and it took 3 attempts to find a working set. We eventually got moving at about 12. We walked along the canal and then headed off across fields to Gumley and then towards Saddington where we stopped for lunch at the Queens head, which we thought we had been in before but couldn't remember when - obviously on a previous walk. After lunch we walked towards Shearsby.
We got a little lost as the LR signposts petered out and had to check the map and compas to find out which way to go. At Shearsby we saw two buzzards flying overhead. It was a pretty village with thatched cottages and a nice church where we looked for a geocache which we found easily behind a gravestone at the corner of the church. Geocaching is a new hobby that we have found which involves using the GPS to find treasure hidden in various locations around the country. We thought that it would add extra interest to our walks. A house at the edge of the village had a bucket full of free apples so we took 2 for the chutney that I planned to make. We left the LR here and walked along the A50 for a km and then headed off across fields to Mosley and Laughton through fields of sweetcorn and back to Foxton locks. We had several horrid encounters with bullocks and bulls in fields, they all wanted to chase us. The fields all seemed very big and interconnecting so we did not have good escape routes.
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