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benefitted -from the best part of the day.
Some of us also added to the Christmas cheer in
one of the local hostelries.
MAUREEN TOLLFREE
A Reminder to Ramblers
The following letter was received from a
farming member with a plea to stick to
footpaths.
"1 Mascalls Cottages,
Mascalls Lane,
Brentwood, Essex.
30th January, 1988
Dear Sir,
Last Boxing Day I joined the Field Club for a
footpath ramble at Havering, which 1 know we
all enjoyed.
One point, however, did mar my day.
A large part of the land over which we walked
is farmed by a friend of mine. I believed,
hopefully, he was away for Christmas, as I
would not like to have met him then.
With the exception of the first field, which
was ploughed and had a wide, well-trodden,
fieldside path, and the third field, which was
newly sown but with an unmarked cross-field
path, passage was marked through every other