An afternoon at Box Hill

We met up with John, Sam and the babies a couple of weeks ago at Box Hill in Surrey. It was a beautiful spring day and so everyone else had the same idea as us and went to Box Hill too. But that’s fine, they all sat on the the ridiculously steep hill while we [...]

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Forest sunshine

After a really not at all suspicious-looking double drive-by of John and Sam’s new house yesterday, we met up with Sam, Anya and Lily at a nearby forest. Alice Holt forest is interestingly another Go Ape site, but we remained firmly on the paths, going for a little wander in the late afternoon. That great [...]

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New Year

Happy new year, folks. I hope you celebrated appropriately and that someone called you on new year’s eve and said, “Hey, happy new year, let’s go for a walk and have lunch tomorrow!” And that you looked at the weather forecast, saw that it would be cloudy, but dry and agreed to the plan. That’s [...]

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Life moves fast in the country

Just three days before I’d been walking through a field of barley wishing I had my camera with me, rather than just my phone. Returning with my Nikon camera on a walk just those few days later though, I found all the barley gone, with the last few bales being collected from the now bare [...]

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Fields of gold

I went for a walk yesterday, as part of an ongoing effort to clear my head and get my joints working. I’ve been out in the fields in recent days, among the seed heads of oil seed rape and horse beans, thin and fat, little red bugs and swarms of little flies that I then [...]

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I bet Laura Ingalls Wilder never had this trouble

Not interested, but if you wait here an idiot pony will be along shortly

I had some weedy little turnips that I thought might be a nice treat for the Shetland ponies and goats that I occasionally walk past on a wander in the fields, so I dropped them into my rucksack along with my camera and cycled up the little hill to feed them. On one side of [...]

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