Sunday Picture Post: Walking On Sunshine

Weather forecast for 18th March 2026: gentle wind, gentle warmth, and sunshine. Not going to need the thermals today. So let’s go, let’s walk on sunshine!

18th March 2026

🔼 Our destination, Swardeston, and we hop off the bus with a definitive spring to our step 🔽 Where most villages have long since lost their common, Swardeston retains two. This is the lower common, lower as in ‘in the river valley’

18th March 2026

These pastures are still referred to as the water meadows, although they’ve not been deliberately flooded this side of WWII (my father remembers skating on those at nearby Newton Flotman. 🔼 I’m thinking this is drainage from the fields on the hill (hill, as in the Norfolk sense) 🔽 My favourite tree, still throwing her arms in the air and dancing

18th March 2026

🔼 We’re in that swathe of villages where it seems every tree is host to the mistletoe 🔽 Trees are greening, catkins are browning, and here’s the gate that takes us into the woods

18th March 2026

🔼🔽 Daffodils are everywhere at this season, but none delight the eye as those that paint the woodland floor in hues of sunshine-gold

18th March 2026

🔼 With where this village lies I expected this small stream to be a tributary of the Tas (which is a tributary of the Yare . But no, it’s a direct tributary of the Yare. A footbridge is provided for we adventurous walkers 🔽 Woodland part two

18th March 2026

🔼 This part of the walk ends in a gate onto a lane, that lane will take us back to the start 🔽 Along the way, the houses display more imagination than our modern offerings