I've walked up Castle Hill more or less monthly since 1976, so the odds always said it would give me a shoe eventually, and in June 2015 it did. A child's sandal, left, brown, the buckle sort, so no laces to record. It were under the wall on the path up from Lumb Lane.
The notebook says it were a clear day and I could see Emley mast plain, and that's a proper measure of visibility round here — better than owt a weather forecast gives you. If you can see the mast sharp from Castle Hill you've got a good day, and I had one. Flask conditions good, and I sat a while at the top after, which I've done a few hundred times in fifty years and it hasn't worn off yet.
The photograph came out, which by 2015 standards were worth recording in itself. A small brown sandal under a dark wall doesn't give a camera much to work with, so I'll have been pleased. Number 80, a round number, on the hill I know better than any other ground I walk. The notebook makes nothing of that and neither did I, but transcribing it now, it sits nicely.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.