There's a line at the end of this entry that reads different now than it did when I wrote it. 'Drove the Denby Dale side on purpose, having had my eye east all summer, though I couldn't have said why.' Six weeks later come the Emley boot, which is number 121 in this register and has its own account. I'm not saying the two are connected. The folder had been open two years by 2017 and the reports were coming from that side, so my eye being east had a perfectly ordinary explanation, and I'll not dress it up as owt else. But I'll admit the line stopped me when I were transcribing it.
The shoe itself: left boot, black, worn through at the heel, laces in, on the field path above Skelmanthorpe. Grey morning with rain later, and the rain arrived as promised. Three photographs, one came out. Flask conditions fair.
Skelmanthorpe were new ground for the register, and good walking — field paths with proper stiles, kept up. The boot were worn honest, heel gone through the way a boot goes when it's done its miles. Logged same as any other, which is the only way I log them.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.