23rd April 2025 and its bluebell season; we’ve three bluebell woods to visit during the coming weeks. We start with our annual pilgrimage to where once we lived. It’s a double bus ride, there, then back. But the weather is fair (not dazzling sunshine but warmish and not raining either). Please join us on our walk through the Green Hills Woods and beyond
23rd April 2025
🔼 At the start of the woods, before we climb hills. Really, it’s only one hill but we tend to zigzag up and down it 🔽
23rd April 2025
23rd April 2025
🔼 While bluebells really are delightful, they do reflect the light making it almost impossible to capture their deep purplish-blue 🔽
23rd April 2025
23rd April 2025
23rd April 2025
23rd April 2025
🔼 Once upon a time atop this hill was a small pine plantation, but that was cleared about ten years ago encouraging a renewal of forgotten treasures 🔽
23rd April 2025
23rd April 2025
🔼 We leave the woods and follow a farm-lane to where the river Tud flows through a now flooded, one-time gravel diggings
23rd April 2025
🔼 The old bridge over the Tud, and a newer one 🔽
23rd April 2025
23rd April 2025
🔼 My most favourite river, delight of the local children. And one of the flooded gravel pits which vegetation has long since reclaimed 🔽
23rd April 2025
And alas, we come to the end. Time to catch our bus.
23rd April 2025
Hope you enjoyed and that you haven’t yet tired of bluebells because. I think I might be saving the best till last
crispina kemp 
What a beautiful setting for a walk. Thanks so much for taking me along.
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My pleasure, Violet, as ever
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Its amazing how all blue bell woods look similar 😁
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Except some are hilly and some are flat! But that’s why I’ve tried to include other aspects of our walk
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and we are truly grateful 💜💜
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Of the 3 woods I visited, the first 2 walks I’ve combined with rivers. The last one…well, I went to the beach but I didn’t take photos. Too many people!
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A wonderful visit and marvellous walk, the Bluebells alone are worth the effort of putting one foot in front of another. Norfolk is a marvellous area of beauty.
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Norfolk escaped the Industrial Revolution (because it has no fast-flowing rivers and the only thing worth quarrying was and still is sand and gravel). There are other historical reasons, but that’ll do for now
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