6th August 2025 dawns bright and clear. Forecast says it’s going to get out hot but not till late in the day. So plenty of water, fruits for nibbles, let’s go. It’s a double bus ride to get to the beginning of our walk today. Happy you can join us
6th August 2025
Today’s walk starts at the Railway Tavern in Poringland. No, no railway, never has been, but that’s a story for another day. We’re heading for Hellington via the villages, green lanes and byways. 🔼🔽 While this isn’t a true green lane, it is definitely green – with masses of mistletoe hanging from the heart-leaved poplar trees
6th August 2025
6th August 2025
🔼 First village, Framingham Piggott. There’s also a Framingham Earl and I haven’t yet learnt where the parish boundary lies. It has the feel of a bygone age. Beautiful. However, it’s not long before we’re back in C21st 🔽
6th August 2025
6th August 2025
🔼 More views in the village 🔽 ⏬
6th August 2025
6th August 2025
🔽Framingham Piggott church might look old, all fancy gothic. But this is a revamp courtesy of Victorians who were crazy for all things gothic
6th August 2025
6th August 2025
🔼 A woodland path carries us between the lanes and cuts off a corner that I do know belongs to Framingham Earl 🔽 A short way along that second lane and we’ve another (long) cut along a footpath to the next village. Alpington
6th August 2025
6th August 2025
🔼 At Alpington cricket has taken a front seat for the summer and football temporarily set aside. 🔽 But their sense of humour remains.
6th August 2025
6th August 2025
🔼 Our final stage is through farmland 🔽 and a chance to approve the conditions of these free range chickens. They number in 1000s, all with a natural environment. So good to see. Not so good to smell!
6th August 2025
We complete our walk with a stop off for light refreshments at a garden centre, then hop a bus, and another. It’s beginning to get roasting hot. So pleased to reach the cooling breezes of my coastal habitat!
Hope you enjoyed. Plenty more photos on Tuesday and Friday
crispina kemp 
Love these pictures! The chickens are very well fed but the skeleton is starving 😿
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Last year that skeleton had a lollipop but I guess he lost it to the trick or treaters! And it’s always good to see those chickens. Chicken farmers get so much bad press.
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🥰👍🏼
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It just occurred to me this morning that there is never anyone else walking where you take us each Sunday. Is there really no one? Or do you just avoid taking pictures of them since this is a nature walk/shoot? Seems like such beautiful places would attract plenty of walkers.
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We do encounter people. But I respect their privacy and try to avoid including them in the photos. I always wonder if they’re where they’re meant to be and what trouble I could cause them by flashing their photo on internet! That hesitancy also applies to car registrations. Maybe it’s the writer in me, can reason through the consequences!
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Violet has a point! And what a lovely walk you have brought us on. Wonderful to see the chickens out and about (despite their stench)!
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Thank you. And I wouldn’t call it stench, really. Just pungent. Stench is a piggery in summer that’s overdue for a clean
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All in the nose of the sniffer … Some like the scent of certain flowers, others would call it a stench. 😉
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I have a really sensitive nose but I grew up in the countryside so I’m OK with it. Rather that than perfumes and hair products
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I hear ya!
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😏🙄🤪
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Amazing photos Crispina, I especially liked the village pictures! Looks like a great place to live!
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Thank you. Those villages are easy commutes to the city of Norwich and yet remain, mostly, unchanged by new builds and dormitories
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