Wednesday 04.09.2013

A perfect balmy September evening, an Autumn hors d`oeuvre: grass still green, corn nearly as high as a baby elephant`s eye,

the beasts still in the fields, a little more pensive and less `boinging` than in the spring but still there.......for now,

not to mention the accompanying soundtrack of combine harvesters working late into the night. No real hint of leaves on the turn but mushrooms and rowan berries and rosehips galore....there will not be many more of these evening walks.

The dearth of entries here over the last month doesn`t signify a lack of walking. There has been much walking but less access to the computer: walks across and around the fields of Devon

and Northamptonshire

with not a little music and boogieing thrown in

and spectacular fireworks to boot.







Walks in the leafy suburbs of London, walks through the market town of Stroud....being very Stroud....

and croquet on a Cotswold lawn.

In amongst all that, good food, excellent company, lots of train journeys (hooray!)and probably not enough sleep.

So one more jolly jaunt in a week`s time to round off the summer - an Octogenarian birthday on the Cornish coast - and then it`s firmly shackled back to work as we descend into the long dark nights (candles,firesides,books, films, scarves and woolly hats - can`t wait).