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Holme Gardens, September

The wind has gone round to the north, and the weather has turned dry again, unexpectedly chilly for September. There was even frost on the car windscreen when I headed out on Tuesday morning. ( Read more... )

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To Long Crichel

The Met Office forecast yesterday was for heavy rain coming in late morning, so I planned only a small walk - a short circuit (a "short circuit" seeming an appropriate response to the chaos of the last few weeks at work).

( A grey day along the lanes )

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Sculpture by the Lakes

It has been a few years since I last visited Sculpture by the Lakes, and I hadn't realised what a major tourist attraction it has now become. Summer had come back for one day, and the place was teeming with visitors.

( A tea-less grumpy philistine wanders round a sculpture park )

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Arne & the White-tailed Eagle

After weeks of gales, finally the wind has dropped. A quiet grey drizzly sort of morning, with all the distances blurred.

Went to Arne, and walked down to the edge of the harbour at Shipstal Point. The summer tourist season is over, and, for the first few hours, I had the reserve to myself.

( Unexpected encounter )

Honesty

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Culpepper's Dish to Moreton Ford

A walk south from the Forestry Commission car park at Culpepper's Dish on the Jubilee Trail footpath. Across heath, woods and stubble fields, all under a flat grey sky.

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September in the Secret Garden

It really was the Secret Garden today. Thanks to the unpredictability of the weather - so many sudden! ambush! torrential downpours - I had the whole garden to myself (bar the two students lurking at the back of the café, doing whatever it is students get up to when they are bored out of their brains at their weekend job).

( Not necessarily flowers )