On a thankfully cooler afternoon 10 ramblers plus one retired rambler walked 4 miles prior to our annual strawberry tea .
We started from Bradstone car park in Ashton Keynes starting off on the Thames Path. We stopped along the way to admire and sniff a rose bush (not a dog rose ) and conjectured how it got there . We walked mainly under trees for the first part accompanied by blue damsel flies. We passed several lakes at one we stopped to watch a lady water skiing .
Our walk then proceeded back to Ashton Keynes passing several fields recently cut for silage arriving back at Antoinette’s home for our tea

Shelter from the sun on the Thames Path

Manorbrook Lake, often used for water skiing

Possibly a Comma butterfly

Lake 68. Used for filming George Clooney’s film Boys in the Boat and also Kenneth Brannagh’s Death on the Nile