Fancy A Walk?

When I am busy in the garden I don't have much time for walking  - but after being stuck indoors on Monday I felt like re-acquainting myself with the village where I live.  There is a circular route that takes you right around the village - fancy taking a walk with me to see what we can see?

Turn left at the end of the road and you come to Dag Lane, only enough width for one car and fields on either side.  This is where all the 'dog walkers' seem to congregate.

The views across the Laughton Hills are wonderful, especially on a sunny day or a winters day when there are no leaves to disturb the view.

The hedge banks are full of wild flowers - foxgloves

and vetch

at the end of Dag Lane you follow the road round and come to Laughton Lane and the village Cricket pitch

past lovely pink Campions

and a cathedral of trees, especially welcome shade on a hot summers day

where the Elder are just coming into flower

at the end of the road is the abandoned Wesleyan Chapel

at the crossroads - which leads you back on to Main Street

walking past the newly installed village bench in honour of the Diamond Jubilee

and the village hall - the sign was carved by an old gentleman in the village

past the now defunct telephone box which is waiting for a coat of paint from some kindly volunteer

and back to the end of the road where I turn off into my street

back home and into the garden

full of flower but looking slightly bedraggled after all the wind and rain

right to the end of the garden which overlooks grazing pasture

and a beautiful view of the Mowsley hills

walking back down to the house you pass by the fairy rings that have sprung up in the wet weather

past the greenhouse where the tomato plants are struggling to keep warm

and finally my little red tea pot and geranium on the table where I would like to spend the rest of the summer reading and taking shelter from the sun under the umbrella.  Fat chance! 

Hope you enjoyed our little stroll together - we must do it again sometime.