The Old Stile

 

Spring in our Steps

IT FEELS SO STRANGE to be out walking again. I feel as if some inspector is going to pop up from behind a hedge to tell us that we aren’t allowed such pleasures.

I admit that I seem to be forever behind with one strand or another of my work but I don’t think that means that I need to find an excuse to take an hour off for a walk.

It’s good to see three lapwings on the partially flooded field called the Strands between the canal and the river. Two of them are inspecting a grassy patch as if contemplating a possible nest site. When they fly off the third bird soon follows in the same direction, calling as it goes.