This is a photo of a lane (or rather a cart track) near here. It's a lovely walk, but muddy at times- wellyboot country. This afternoon I spent my usual monday two hours at lip reading class. It's surprisingly good fun, and - certainly in the long term - very helpful. Evening meal was very good tonight - consisted of hotted up leftovers. Ann had also turned out a delicious pudding - apple and cinamon fool - made of leftover stewed apple and custard. Thought Ann was in for a heavy cold last night, but it seems to have got rather better during the day. Still- an early night would be no bad thing. Good night all.
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Lovely scenery Mike, somewhat between Constable and Claude - definitely doesn't require a tinted blue eyeglass to enjoy. Your photography is appreciated - nicely framed between the trunk and the sweep of that large bough above.
Thank you Carl. Ruth did a pen and ink drawing of this green drove- I was going to say a couple of years ago but I've just been to look at it -it's in the spare bedroom- and she did it on 6th January l999. Tempus don't half fugit, what ? Much love, Mike.
P.s. As I've just been saying to a friend, who also liked the photie.
A pen and ink sketch, rather than a drawing really.
Looking again and it still fascinates me ...the knobbly tree and the knobbly ground. Why is the ground so bumpy there?
If you enlarge the picture and look above the gate at the grass covered mounds, it is obvious that there has at some time been a human habitation there, and if you then look to the left of the bumpy bits there has been a road (or at least a track) running up the hill. This could I suppose be part of the ancient settlement of Toppesfield, or of Guthrum the Dane, or ??????? Or possibly a former Toppesfield Manor ???? Don't know, will try and remember to ask a friend of mine who might. Cheers, Pa.
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