So I am writing this while we are in the middle of the Beast from the East 2 ( sounds like some sort of horror film sequel!) We managed a 2 mile walk around the village this morning to get the paper before the worst of it, but even in that short time our footprints had disappeared from the drive when we got back. We’ve probably got about 5inches now and the wind has got up even more. No photos of today though as 1) I forgot my phone and 2) I wouldn’t have taken my 2 pairs of gloves off to enable me to take a photo anyway.
I thought I’d give you a taste of our walks around our local Suffolk countryside over the last two weeks. Although the photos are not all exactly countryside, also one or two strange things we’ve seen. The fields are just so muddy at the moment it’s not enjoyable walking the footpaths so we’ve kept mainly to quiet lanes and come up with one or two new routes. We did manage a couple days on the fields when it was frosty though. We’ve walked anywhere between 1.7 miles ( that’s the circuit of our village which is done only on very wet days) to just over 6 miles.
A frosty walk across the fields
The back of Hasketon Hall
Christmas tree anyone?
Pig and elephant out the front of a nursery school!
Gt Bealings church
These alpacas are actually in the field opposite our house. They usually live a couple of fields away but they were in here for about a week, a source of entertainment for the kiddies in the village
Pylon “monkeys” you can just see a man halfway up the pylon, we passed them on several walks cleaning/painting(?) them
Aconites and snowdrops
We came across these deer in a field, bit blurry as I tried to zoom in. Not sure if they are roe or fallow deer