18th May 2026 and how the weather forecasters do rile us. It’s going to rain, it’s not going to rain, it’s going to rain. Rain or not we hop a bus into Norwich and walk the lane to Whitlingham Country Park. We’ll take shelter if it rains. Join us.
18th May 2026
🔼 What I like about Whitlingham is it’s usually dry under foot! This paved walk is lined with golden buttercups. 🔽 And everywhere, yellow flags edge the water
18th May 2026
🔽 But with the unsettled weather forecast, we’re keeping an eye on that sky!
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 As far as I know, these churchy-looking ruins were once the summer residence of the bishop of Norwich. Certainly the bishop did have a summer residence here, where he and his cohorts escaped the nasty miasmas of summers in the city 🔽 But back in those medieval days this lake did not exist. Here was a great grazing marsh. This lake was formed when gravel/aggregates were quarried for use in the making of the Norwich Southern Bypass. The adjacent River Yare then filled the hole and pretty soon the swans appeared
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 These Egyptian geese (aka Spectacle geese) are obeying the ‘Rule of Three 🔽 Or are they keeping an eye on the weather? ⏬ Just look at those clouds rolling in
18th May 2026
🔽 !!!
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔼 Yellow Flags. Have I said I love Yellow Flags. Well, in case I haven’t, I’ll say it now. I love Yellow Flags!!! 🔽 With the sky clouding over we take a detour through the woods… ⏬ and back out again
18th May 2026
18th May 2026
🔽 So many trees here but this is maybe my favourite. Gnarly!
18th May 2026
Alas, that’s all for now, folks. And where are we off to next week?
crispina kemp 
Everything is beautifully green. These photos are lovely.
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Thank you, Sadje. I’m sure by August everywhere will be looking crisp and brown! But we’ve a month of two to enjoy this green before that happens
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You’re welcome. Even in those months, you find inspiring pictures for us.
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I do my best. I have a problem when it gets hot. My system doesn’t like it. Doctor says I have to stay inside and not exert myself.
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Good advice my friend.
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So when I can’t get out, I’ll deliver the post from my archives
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That great. 😊
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😁💖
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♥️♥️♥️
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Really lovely, especially those geese 😎
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Always plenty of swans and geese at that park
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Gorgeous trek! Thanks for taking me along. I hope you made it in somewhere as that last frame of cloud cover looked like it meant business.
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It held off till we got on the bus for home!
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What a wonderful stroll- beautiful sights too many to mention but the 💛 Buttercups and Yellow Flags 💛need highlighting as does that exquisite gnarly tree – he’s just looking for a hug 🤗
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Alas, unable to hug the tree. He sits behind a wire fence and a water-filled drainage channel!
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Oh no wonder he looks so desperate! ☹️
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He calls to us!
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This is splendid and those Egyptian geese are fabulous!
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I remember my first sighting of those, not long after the first escapee from an ornamental garden had set up territory in the Broads. Amazing, so unlike our native geese, and doing well in the wilds (40+ years now)
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Looks so peaceful.
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It is. Except during school holidays!
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