Every Thursday a small group of us, now all retired, go for a walk of about 8 miles. We have a nucleus of 6 walkers with occasional guests who join us when the walking is particularly easy and the weather is good. Though all members of Knutsford Ornithological Society these are not bird watching trips and the walks are selected to give us the opportunity to visit new places with good scenery and interesting sites. Our pace of walking varies between slow and full stop. Bird watching, botanising, bugs or fungi, every opportunity to stop is gladly taken. The only time the group has been known to hurry is when we have walked so slowly that we are in danger of being late for the pub lunch.

We have now been walking for a few years and have covered sizeable chunks of Cheshire and the Peak District and to a lesser extent areas of Staffordshire, North Wales, Lancashire and the Lake District.