The Ramblers Association have had a new idea – to create a network of “mystery walkers” to check Britain’s footpaths.
So far as we can see, the job doesn’t involve checking on high brightly the flowers are glowing this morning or whether the sheep in the field baah’d in a nice way as you passed it.
This is more related to checking how the public footpaths of Britain are fairing up to all those walkers, with the intention of producing a map showing the best and worst maintained footpaths in the country.
The overall idea is that once they have a map, they can then go to the councils with the bad footpaths and in theory get them to do something about them. One does wonder if they’ve heard about the economic cuts and such, but the intentions might be well meaning at least and they do say that they will praise the councils with good footpaths.
So if you want to become part of the army of people with your secret clipboard hidden under the dufflecoat, head over to the Ramblers Association web site and register your interest.
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