Three go mad in Gloucestershire

At Belas Knap long barrow

November 1 - 3, 2013: the annual walking weekend of the Three Rivs.

This year we are based at the White Hart in Winchcombe. Much the same as last time: laughs, long walks, poor jokes, remembering our childhoods and teenage years, bumping into three imaginary randy sisters on a similar reunion (the perennial problem being how to persuade 2 of them to make do with my brothers).

It's nice to have lifelong friends like these.

Not quite the same as when we started this tradition in the Malvern Hills 4 years ago:

• we're all drinking halves instead of pints
• more time spent discussing our various ailments
• talk includes my brothers' plans for retirement
• distinctly less colour in our hair (P is positively bleached) though, sadly, at my rate of change I'm probably fated to another 2 decades of ginger
• 12 miles in one day is quite enough for me