1st June 2026 breaks as another fair day. Yay! Cos I know exactly where I want to walk this morning, an arable landscape liberally peppered with wild roses and poppies. It’ll take us two buses to reach our starting point of Brooke, but we’re happy with that. Please come along with us, no need to bring food, we’ll be lunching at a local pub. Enjoy…
1st June 2026
🔼 First to greet us is a lane full of wild roses. I could fill the entire post with these photos… but no matter how lovely, they’d eventually outlive their welcome
1st June 2026
So many of our walks take us through farmers’ yards 🔼 Not sure what this piece of vintage equipment is. Perhaps used for sowing seeds? 🔽 These sheds probably began life was barns, maybe pig-sheds or for chickens. I think now they’ve an industrial use, but it’s those tanks catch my eye
1st June 2026
1st June 2026
🔼 Leafy green lanes are fantastic for finding wild flowers 🔽 What we find can be seen on Tuesday; for now, we enjoy this clover field. Clover is used to fix nitrogen in the soil, to return it to full fertility without the use of nasty chemicals
1st June 2026
1st June 2026
🔼 We find several fields apparently left fallow, yet heaving with clovers 🔽 I love this view through the trees as we follow a narrow path along the edge of a woods
1st June 2026
1st June 2026
🔼 Some of the trees here must surely date to the Georgian era. Back in the day, landowners were encouraged to plant trees for shipbuilding, but most were never used. By the time they’d matured metal had taken its place 🔽 This is clay-land, it has to be drained if its to support crops, hence ditches form the field boundaries. This one is dry
1st June 2026
🔽 The sky is clouding over, I hope it’s not to rain. And I swear, were it not for those trees lining the lane ahead, this wheat field would look more like the sea now the wind is rising!
1st June 2026
🔽 Roses, and poppies, everywhere…
1st June 2026
🔽 I’m happy to see this skeletal tree for it marks the lane that’ll take us to that pub, for lunch and a cold, thirst-quenching drink. That cloud-covered sky is holding in the heat and making the air…murky!
1st June 2026
Hope you enjoyed our walk through the arable countryside. More photos on Tuesday AND ‘flyers on Friday’.
See you then 💖
crispina kemp 
Loved the last tree.
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The lightning tree, now the woodpeckers larder
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A tree with character.
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Beautiful shots- you can’t have too many wild rises!!🌸 I love the trees too
That piece of equipment in the hedge looks like an old, manual mangold hurler or root cutter used to chop up turnips etc for the cattle and sheep in the wintertime. When I was little we had two farms either side of the Old Mill-house – one I used to visit regularly – Ted he had one, fun days – milking the cows was all by hand too in then he used to let me have a go 😀
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I used to help out on a farm. They always gave me the job of mangoling the mangols. Never dud know what a mangol was. A large swede? Anyway, I was allowed to feed the minced mess to the overwintering cattle in the barn. But this one doesn’t look like that one, which just goes to show they come in all shapes and sizes
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Yes but I could be wrong it was some years ago 😂
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I did so enjoy my walk through the English countryside!
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Thank you, Jodi. Love it at this time of year
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Ooh, some very interesting ones! Lovely trees and flowers too.
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My mission: to record the Norfolk countryside!
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I am constantly in awe of these magnificent ancient trees. Happy Sunday, Crispina!
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A beautiful post for this grey day over here. Love dead trees like that, too.
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