It’s windy at Willey! It’s even windier elsewhere – we’re well sheltered from westerly winds here. A teacher at one of the local primary schools remarked that the kids were always high as kites on windy days, and this afternoon we could perhaps understand why. There’s something exhilarating about walking on a day like this – the telegraph wires* are singing, the trees and bushes whooshing and the birds wheeling in what looks like a joyful manner (the bigger ones, that is. The little birds are mostly staying safe in the hedges). It’s good to be out – as ever!

* I know. They’re probably fibre-optic cables these days

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