I've been walking up Castle Hill more or less monthly since 1976 and it doesn't offer up many, which is why this one got a fuller note than a grey trainer might otherwise earn. Right trainer, grey, laces tied in a double knot, fair condition, on the grass bank below the tower. Fair condition, I wrote, which for a trainer on open grass means it hadn't been out long.
Clear morning with good light — the notebook says you could see to the Emley Moor mast, and I remember that being so. Two photographs on the new camera, both come out, which in March 2018 still felt like a novelty worth recording, and I recorded it. The mast being visible went in the book as a measure of the day, and I still use it as one.
Flask conditions good. Egg and cress, for a change — the book is particular on that point. The double knot is worth dwelling on an' all. Most laces you find are loose or gone altogether. Somebody tied that trainer meaning it to stop tied. I didn't wonder why, because wondering why isn't the job, but I wrote the knot down and I'm glad I did. It's the details like that as make a register worth keeping.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.