That’s what was forecast from 1pm. All we saw was a watery sun, providing little illumination and no warmth! We needed to be home by around 3pm, and sure enough, just a few minutes later, the sun was shining brightly from a blue sky. Reddish brown predominates today, with a splash of welcome yellow and a little new greenery too.
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Attingham: the snowdrops are in bloom, so we’ll walk through their woodland, but we’ve seen plenty over the last few days. Across the river, some good soul has been laying out bird seed on old logs and stumps, and if we’re patient (make ourselves look like trees!) we might be treated to a colourful display…
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Snowdrops galore – and catkins, and the odd early primrose. Spring can’t be far away!
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On Wednesday’s walk, we passed a wayside plant stall, offering pots of snowdrops for sale. “We’ll bring the car round and buy some after our walk” (we could hardly carry them for the next four miles). We remembered the idea just a couple of minutes before returning to the start – then drove home having completely forgotten again. There were plenty on offer – “We’ll go that way in a day or two”.
Today (three days later) we bought the last two pots!
Continuing on our way, we found ourselves on the Cardington road, for a walk up to Plaish. Oddly enough, there were lots of snowdrops along the way…
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