Showery with bright spells at Deer Hill, and the notebook records that I timed the photographs for the bright spells, which were a new behaviour the camera had me doing. Two come out well. Right boot, tan, one lace present and knotted, sole worn through at the heel, on the reservoir track above Meltham. The one lace were in a single knot, which went in the book along with the heel.
A curlew going over most of the morning, which I logged, because a curlew is conditions as far as I'm concerned. Flask conditions good. The boot had done some miles before it were ever a lone shoe — you don't wear a heel through stood still. That's condition, not speculation, and I record condition. A worn boot at a reservoir is the commonest find there is, and I gave it the full treatment regardless.
Deer Hill is a fair pull up from Meltham but the track is honest and the views pay for it. I couldn't tell you now whether I sat with this one — the stool isn't mentioned and the showers make me doubt it. Where the book is quiet I'll be quiet an' all. That's the rule I've kept for the whole of this write-up and I'll not be breaking it for a tan boot.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.