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Green Hills and Vales
April 22nd. The day arrives for our annual return to our childhood home, to the woods where I played Robin Hood and Sir Ivanhoe, where I learned the names of wild flowers. And from the woods a walk along Marriotts … Continue reading
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Tagged Costessey, Marriott's Way, Norfolk Walks, Photos, River Tud, River Wensum, Trees
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Who’s for a Paddle?
Last Thursday … what a walk. For of the season, legs seemed not to be mine, though they finally got the hang of it. Meanwhile, the photo ops leapt out from all directions. In Norfolk a creek is a short stream … Continue reading
Multi-car Pile-up
Not my usual subject when out with the camera, but these cars awaiting scrapage called loudly to me. #2018picoftheweek: Transport
In Awkward Places
I have posted a photo featuring graffiti for the #2018picoftheweek challenge before. Then it was on a stand-alone wall, in woodland. This time we’re under a bridge. #2018picoftheweek title: Symmetry. But what boggles my mind is how the artist accessed … Continue reading
Down Below
Down below the water, beneath the bridge where once was a ford, the chalky bedrock glows. #2018picoftheweek: Looking Down The view is deceptive; the bridge is at least 10′ above the water; the water here is 4′ deep.
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Tagged #2018picoftheweek, British Flora, Norfolk Rivers, Photos, River Wensum
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All That Sparkles
The photo was taken looking down from a bridge over the River Wensum, on the outskirts of Norwich, with a faster shutter speed than I’d usually use (the bridge parapet served as tripod), and I managed to capture the sparkles. … Continue reading
Water. Everywhere
After the snow came the flood. Okay, so I exaggerate; it wasn’t that bad. Yet walking the Wensum Valley on Tuesday all I could see of the lower meadows were the protruding hedges and the tufts of the taller grass-hummocks. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Photos
Tagged #2018picoftheweek, Costessey Mill, Domesday Book, Medieval History, River Wensum, Water
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Reflections
In Celtic myth, water was the way to the Otherworld . . . We need only think of the Lady of the Lake, or the many offerings found in the Thames . . . swords, skulls and shields, for the … Continue reading
Autumn in the Wensum Valley
A fortnight back I took a walk in the Wensum Valley—Taverham to Ringland and back to Taverham, via the flooded gravel-workings of Costessey Pits. Alas, as I got off the bus the heavens opened and, apart from a brief spell, … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, Costessey, Photos, Ringland Hills, River Wensum, Taverham
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Whither Shall I Wander
Indecisions. I had spent last weekend poring over maps, trying to decide where next to walk. Would it be the bus to Morton-on-the-Hill then a walk back to Taverham through the Wensum Valley? Road walking, leafy lanes. It had its … Continue reading
Posted in History, Photos, Thoughts
Tagged Costessey Pits, Count Alan, Domesday Book, East Hills Woods, Jerninghams, Local History, River Tud, River Wensum, Walks, Woodland
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