VILLAGE WALK

On a recent sunny day I was walking home through the village & thought I'd take some photos as I went along & share my walk with you. Things that you don't notice when you are driving. Interesting things, pretty things & every day things.

One of the first I photographed was the village pound - I am pleased that it is still there. For those of you who don't know, the pound was a small walled area where any loose animals would be rounded up & placed & then the owner would have to pay a fine to reclaim them.

Nowadays there is a bench & information about the village in there.

There are always abandoned & derelict farm buildings crumbling away here & there - they must have been useful once.

We have lots of stone around here, therefore lots of stone walls around the houses & farms.

This big rock has a plaque which commemorated the planting of an oak tree for the Queen's Golden Jubilee & the little tree is doing very well 11 years on.

Of course almost everyone grows flowers & vegetables so there are always surplus plants to buy - the 'honesty boxes' always please me - it is so trusting.

Hay racks make excellent planters.

There is a lot of cow parsley around at the moment...or Queen Anne's Lace, which sounds so much more important! Our horses love eating it.

A very old milestone so we know how far it is to Wotton.

We are now just about coming to the turn into our lane & here is the old Ebenezer Chapel which was derelict when we came to live here but is now a pretty house.

On our lane now, a very well tended veggie garden (these neighbours almost always win lots of the vegetable categories at the annual flower show!)

No straying here - well behaved sheep & lambs.

Beautiful & wonderfully scented bluebells on the roadside.

The last stretch until we are home.

Mind the tractor & trailer - this one doesn't smell good at all - it is full of slurry for spreading on the fields - peg on nose!

Home at last - tulips on the doorstep....time for a cuppa?