January 2026
Author: Pheasant Tommy
The year started with a panic and the dawning realisation that the plans for the new season’s walks had somehow been lost. Blame was apportioned in a zealous and indiscriminate manner but the cold reality was that the original list of hikes had been misplaced and no back up existed.
This resulted in a 2nd arduous session back at the West End House to once again plan a corpus of walks for 2026. Luckily there were a few breadcrumbs in the encyclopaedic Pheasant library for the rebuild process to take place. With a new series of routes planned and chiselled into granite for safe keeping the Pheasants were once again ready for another year’s adventuring.
January itself finished with a new record as 10 pheasants turned up for the Great Massingham walk, marking the first time a pheasant outing had a double figures attendance. This event also allowed us to welcome a new Pheasant applicant to the group and the hope is that he becomes a regular across the remainder of 2026.