Good Progress!

 Another week seems to have passed very quickly. I seem to have been quite busy and have enjoyed myself with a variety of activities. 

On Thursday I was tempted to go for a walk but decided instead to get my scarifier out and have a go at removing at least some of the moss from my back lawn. I made good progress, filled my new brown bin three-quarters full and the lawn looking a little more like there is some grass! I did pace myself over a number of short sessions so I didn't overdo it.

On Saturday I decided to investigate Algy's report of there being a new information board about three spitfires crashing near Abbotstone.

Badger Sett.

Badger diggings.

Sunday 7th March I decided to try a little more ambitious walk from Tichborne. Parked by the church and headed SouthWest along a mixture of public footpaths and permissive paths. the going was mainly dry but there were some patches of mud and water especially in field gateways. I was quite warm despite the temperature being only about 6 degrees as I was walking for over a mile alongside a wood. 

 

Map of the permissive path.

Interesting Fungi.

One of the muddy patches.

Old Man's Beard and Catkins.

High seat for shooting. There were three of these alongside the wood.

Sunday's Route.

The weather was fine with some nice sunny spells. The route very quiet, only saw 4 other walkers a couple of partridge. The highlight of the walk hearing a woodpecker drumming. Much as I tried, despite him keeping going for several minutes, I was unable to spot him in the trees.

Because the going was quite rough in places and with muddy patches to work around my pace was quite slow. After the 3.6 miles I was quite tired and hungry and ready for a lunch of baked spud with Coronation Chicken washed down with a tasty beer.

Gridironman.