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Browsing Posts published in April, 2007

Lavenham here we come!

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Tomorrow morning we leave for the medieval market town of Lavenham in Suffolk and will be returning in the afternoon of next Tuesday 1st May. From what I can gather the hotel may well have broadband which may mean I can give a blow by blow account of the trip – but then again …..

Feelin’ Blue

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On April the 5th last I mentioned that we had been to a number of local woods to look for Wood Anemones and one of those woods was Shut Heath Wood. Today we went back to that wood to look for Bluebells. Need I say more?

Angels, Windmills and Porridge

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Yesterday was a lovely sunny day and the back roads called. We headed north-west towards Braintree, by-passed Braintree to the north, then off west through Bocking Churchstreet. We passed by the windmill in Bocking Churchstreet, which we have visited before, and made our way through the tiny back roads passing through the villages of Panfield, [...]

Today we celebrate!

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We have a Weeping Willow in our garden. Last year it looked very sick, leaves turning yellow and falling off during the summer. Looking at that tree you could have been forgiven for thinking that autumn had arrived in August. This what our tree should have looked like at this time of year: and this [...]

Two churches and a wood.

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The next wood that we wanted to visit was Blakes Wood, Danbury near Chelmsford in Essex so that was where we were headed this morning but, on the way, we were going to call in to Woodham Walter Church. I have already mentioned this little tudor church in the Blog, with pictures, on 21st August [...]

Another day, another wood.

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Well, if you want to be pedantic, another two days and another three woods. Yesterday we went to a village near us called Wickham Bishops to look at Sparkey Wood and Shut Heath Wood to see if there were any signs of Wood Anemonies and there were. There was a good show in both although [...]

Dressed to impress

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Mr. Pheasant pops in and out of our garden which, I am certain, is part of ‘his’ territory. I hope he doesn’t mind us living there. He was back in our garden today and this time he came up right near the house so I managed to get a good picture. He is certainly dressed [...]

Cottage and Castle

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In my previous entry I said “The weather is forecast to be good next week” and it is. I had wanted to visit Pleshey for some time now so that is where we decided to go this morning. Pleshey is a small village about 7 miles north-west of Chelmsford in Essex and is unusual in [...]