the great escape

"don't worry lambkin it is only a car full of dogs".

No one knows to whom these runaways belong. It looked very like the morning school run.

crossing the Zambesi and other boaring stories

the pack bravely crossing the mighty Inny. On the other side there were some unusual signs of much grubbing around, including areas of grass stripped off. These look suspiciously like the activities of escaped pigs or even possibly wild boars, which were released from a farm not far from us a few years ago. On the other side of the bank we found this large pawprint, definitely not a horse, and big for the small deer that live in the woods locally ... but not obviously with dew claws like a boar (see this link for an interesting guide to field signs of wild boar).
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the road up to our village

the daffodils on the hill up to the village have been out since December (because of the mixture of early and late varieties). In the distance to the right the Temple is visible (see earlier photo) watched over by the large dairy herd.

walk 3 ...

more evidence of how our world has turned brown including one solitary celandine peeping through the fallen leaves.

walk 2 ...and the butterbur

the butterbur is late this year. This is giant butterbur, rather than our native butterbur which is much pinker

walk 1 ...and so it was

somewhat earlier than usual, but there nevertheless as anticipated, the gruesome purple toothwort. Not a speck of green, although some celandine is growing up through the bed of toothwort