Ragwort on the Ruin

MORE NEST-BUILDING ACTIVITY in the garden today; a Song Thrush plucks moss from the same stone behind the pond that the Robin used on Monday.

I spend most of the day setting up my Warren and the Web exhibition at Pontefract Museum. I like the smell of liquorice outside the Habro factory, close to the centre of the town, it reminds me of a school trip we made to another liquorice allsort factory in the town, back in the 1960s.

Coming back along a country lane I pass a hedgerow that for over one hundred yards is bordered by Jack by the Hedge, also known as Hedge Garlic, all in white flower.

The yellow daisy-like flowers of Oxford Ragwort add colour to ruined cottages at Horbury Bridge, all that now remains of Foster's Mill, targetted by the Luddites in April 1812.

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More about the Luddites in Wakefield

Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail;'richard@willowisland.co.uk'