Back on the net after a day spent groaning with stiff legs ...

I walked to Bowden from the opposite direction to New Mills; started from Glossop, two miles bog-trotting, then three along the Pennine Way, William Clough and the footpath down from the reservoir. Then of course, I had to go back again. Somehow the way back always seems longer ...

The event was well worth attending. As Mike Harding and others pointed out, the Trespass broke a logjam which had been in place for years while people negotiated and achieved things only at a snail's pace.

I met Benny Rothman at another protest at Bowden some ten years ago, or so, against Maggie's government flogging the land owned by the recently privatised Water Boards. Benny might have been into his eighties then, but he prostrated half the crowd with a couple of miles of well-paced walking. It is a great shame he died earlier this year, aged ninety.