Another leg of the High Weald Landscape Trail -- Tenterden to Rye.
1. A perfect wood -- hazel trees with fortnight-old leaves, a stream, wild garlic and bluebells.
2. Lambs jumping so that their back legs are thrown out sideways, and calves running with their tails in the air.
3. A view across the marshes: The town of Rye piled up on its hill, with Dungeness powerstation over its shoulder.
Shelter, arisen and pub.
1. We are sheltered under the garden centre's great barn roof. There is a rush of sound and air as the rain comes down. 2. A mushroom, c...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...