Harvests

A local circular, starting at the top of Scots Lane. Down to Bould Lane, down again to the path across the fields, to Linley Hall and beyond. Just where the path would descend to the riverbank, another way leads along the edge of Birch Wood. We skirt the steep drop down to Dean Brook to head back across the fields towards Linley Green and the start. The fields beside Bould lane have been harvested, the straw baled and the ground harrowed. Beyond Linley Hall, there’s a chap operating timber harvesting machinery. There are trees full of crab apples, there are wild plums (sadly, well out of reach), more damsons than I’ve ever seen at this time of year – and wild mushrooms at the field’s edge.