From the Boss: I've found a few more pictures from the farm so we will leave Stanmer for a while. This is Goblin Coombe, a couple of miles from the farm, where mu cousin-in-law winters some of his Hebridean sheep.
I delight in walking Fern, my English Springer Spaniel, through the woods and fields around Stanmer and over the South Downs.
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Goblin Coombe
Friday, 6 May 2011
From the other side
From High Park Wood we see that field of rape from the other side. Just a chink of the English Channel in the distance and the buildings to the left are the Whitehawk television transmitter and the grandstand at Brighton racecourse.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Home again
We got back to Sussex to find our bluebells definitely past their best but the oil seed rape is starting to turn a brilliant yellow and this field at least is lush and green.
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Monday, 2 May 2011
Brockley Hall
From the Park Fields we get a glimpse of Brockley Hall, home to a roost of the rare greater horseshoe bat.
Sunday, 1 May 2011
A floral meadow
The spring in this corner of the field was dry last weekend but maybe the water level had encouraged all the wild flowers - bluebells, dandelions, buttercups and cowslips galore.