PFA Walk by Moonlight

Last Saturday's Hallowe'en PFA walk by moonlight was just right.

6 of us set off in the slightly damp late afternoon air, with some warmth from the setting sun that was all to soon dropping towards the horizon and the far hills and low cloud. At times it was a harsh glare as we walked to the north, and the moon was soon up.

With dusk arriving, Bjorn (who strode ahead as he said he was faint from lack of food) and I were at the Red Lion in Chalton just before 5.00, with the near full moon already high and enough of a chill for my glasses to steam up going in to the pub.

The others - Andrew, Eva, Roger, and Paul (a friend of Roger's), followed in about 10-15 minutes, and it was fully dark. The Red Lion was a good choice - warm, friendly, good beers and food. It was after 7.00 when we left, and with high wispy cloud the moon had a hazy corona - and was it a hunters or a poachers moon, or a harvest one, and did the change in calender have any effect? - with more than enough light save through the woodland to see where we were going. Arriving back at Rowlands Castle about 8.15 gave time for refreshment in the Castle - also Fullers beers - before the 8.46 train back to London.