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Despite the poor weather forecast, Sunday started bright and sunny so we decided to visit Danbury, just the other side of Chelmsford. There are not many high spots in Essex but Danbury is situated on a hill 367 feet (112 m) above sea level, so I hoped for some views…and we
Leaving Regents Park you can walk down Regents Canal towards Little Venice. There are some serious mansions down this part of the canal, the juxtaposition of the multi million pound houses and this slightly down at heel barge (more tomorrow) quite struck me.
Found today in the bath was this monster. He cast quite a shadow! He was caught and put out in the garden. Debbie thought she could hear him walking on the gravel!
We drove out to Radwinter End yesterday to have a look around Bendysh Woods. On the way we drove through some heavy rain but were heartened to see we were heading into better weather. On arrival the sun was bursting through and we walked into Bendysh Woods. These are clearly
We took a walk down the Flitch Way this afternoon, starting in Little Dunmow walking down to the edge of Great Dunmow and then completing a circle back to Little Dunmow. After being deluged by a short, sharp shower we came across this female Migarnt Hawker Dragonfly.
Along with yesterdays bug photographs, I also photographed some dandelion heads. A bit cliched now, but for a good reason – they make good pictures. So here are two of mine
I’m not a fan of wasps, nasty stingy things that get in your beer, but get a macro lens onto them and maybe they become things of beauty. I love the colours on its head, I’ve never noticed reds on a wasp before, mind you, I’ve never been this close
At the weekend I traveled to the southernmost point in the Dunmow Hundred (a hundred was a subdivision of a county or shire listed in the Doomsday Book details of the Dunmow Hundred can be found here). Willingale has the unusual distinction of having two churches built next door to
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