After the rain 2

The fields look a more brilliant green, almost emerald, and there is still a little surface water in the dip.

After the rain

On Tuesday afternoon, after a morning of teeming rain and howling winds, I took Fern to the Clayton windmills and we walked up towards Ditchling Beacon. There was a stream I had never seen before running down one field.

A better view to the east

Go a bit further north from the bench we saw a couple of days ago and the view to the east is improved enormously. As before, we are looking across the Stanmer valley and Mill Wood to a distant view of Firle Beacon but now Castle Hill is in view as well.

Look behind you

This is the view for which the bench in yesterday's photograph was sited. We are looking west across the road to Ditchling Beacon, over Tegdown Hill, the Chattri and on to Holt Hill. That copse on the horizon (right) is Pangdean Holt. To the left of Holt Hill the seemingly wooded area is by Devil's Dyke and further left you might just make out the radio masts on Truleigh Hill.

A bench with a view

It was originally put here just north of Stanmer woods because of the view in the opposite direction but now the hedge is no more people can admire the view in either direction. This is looking across Mill Wood to a distant view of Firle Beacon

On Balmer Down

This picture was actually taken a couple of years ago. The bush has been grubbed up since then and the barbed wire fence removed. The ploughed field is now sheep pasture.

Travelling folk

Travellers have taken over the car park at the Waterhall playing fields. According to our Council, they have come to visit relatives who live in the city. it doesn't help that our Council, on which the Green Party has a majority, seems to welcome these people despite the mess they always leave behind.