Just photos – no particular theme
We’re walking through the grassy mounds around the former Caughley colliery, enjoying (yet again!) the sunshine and the colours in the fields and hedgerows. The soil in the fields beside Red lane provides a clue to its name. In the short damp lane, the bluebells are variable in colour, and the garlic is abundant and pungent!
24 April 2003: St Malo to Portsmouth. It’s an early start from our Brittany base, and a long crossing follows. The sun is low in the sky when we dock in Portsmouth – three hours later, it’s good to be home again.
There’s been little change since we last walked this way – perhaps I can do something different with the photos…
That’s what those wispy clouds resemble. Some of the old oak trees have antlers too. We’re walking down the Dean Farm lane again, enjoying the warm sunshine (again!), though there’s a bit more cloud today.
Coincidence: we don’t get many main line steam-hauled trains in Shropshire, but 22 April scores heavily with three in recent years. The fourth event, just three years ago, involved a brief look at the Middleton Railway in Leeds.
Beyond Inett Farm, a kissing gate provides access to a path across rough grassland, through the remains of ancient shallow coal pits. Beyond, a damp, shady way takes us to Red Lane, where the fields are bright yellow. Some of the bluebells are a funny colour too. We’ll survey the scene from Red Lane before heading back through the mines – to continue would be a shorter route home, but we’d have to walk along the road – no thanks!
All on 21 April:
2005: Ironbridge on a spring evening
2007: steam on the main line, All Stretton and Knucklas
2013: Bridgnorth – a brief exploration
21 April 2003: We found this site by accident, while studying the Michelin map – “where shall we go today?”. Carnac is well-known, deservedly so. On a scrubby ridge near Saint-Just, a few miles north-east of Redon, the Landes de Cojoux seem to be much less popular, despite the fascinating arrays of megaliths.
…and back again. It’s about two miles to the point where we turn back – any further would mean a lengthy descent. In normal times, we’d keep going and have tea and cakes at Coalport.
20 April 2019 – we’ve just arrived in Edinburgh, and we’re taking a walk beside the Water of Leith to Dean Village, early on a fine spring evening
20 April 2020 – coincidentally, and nearly 300 miles further south, we’re walking down the lane that leads to Dean Farm. It’s another fine spring day – not a cloud in the sky.
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