Waywards Gone Wayward: An Interlude
Covid has destroyed lives and disrupted life generally in 2020, and I'm afraid, although it isn't really ‘up there’ with the big tragedies of the year, being suddenly plunged into Tier 4 restrictions as of Boxing Day means that it has also scuppered the South Downs Waywards’ plans for the foreseeable future. We have already had two aborted December days due to the weather, and we had the 27th December down for our next try of Stage 2. The Boxing Day change means that we can no longer travel out of our area, or together, and therefore a trip to Exton was definitely off the cards for the time being. There was still the matter of the Christmas excesses to be walked off, however, so we thought we would undertake a nearer, interim circuit walk on the Downs instead. Cissbury Ring was plan B, but the weather app promised rain for most of the day, while Storrington and Sullington looked much drier. We went for Plan C: a five mile circular walk starting at Sullington Church to slough o