Just got back from the woods and this above, [excuse the telephone camera shot], is the type of scenery we had to put up with.
You know the sort of thing - strolls down tracks strewn with golden brown and purple leaves, the babbling brook, the curved bridge over the fast moving stream and a few rounds of Poohsticks*, a chap with a bicycle sitting on a bench at a table, curled up reading a book, as the warm sunshine filtered down through the canopy above, the old ladies sitting by the pond, pouring tea and enjoying a munch on a teacake.
That sort of thing.
* The World Poohsticks Championships take place annually at Day's Lock on the River Thames near Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The event was started in 1983 as a fund-raising event for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The lockkeeper put out a box of sticks and a collection box and it soon became an annual event. It originally took place in January but in the icy weather of 1997 it was moved to March.
You know the sort of thing - strolls down tracks strewn with golden brown and purple leaves, the babbling brook, the curved bridge over the fast moving stream and a few rounds of Poohsticks*, a chap with a bicycle sitting on a bench at a table, curled up reading a book, as the warm sunshine filtered down through the canopy above, the old ladies sitting by the pond, pouring tea and enjoying a munch on a teacake.
That sort of thing.
* The World Poohsticks Championships take place annually at Day's Lock on the River Thames near Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The event was started in 1983 as a fund-raising event for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The lockkeeper put out a box of sticks and a collection box and it soon became an annual event. It originally took place in January but in the icy weather of 1997 it was moved to March.
It looks idyllic. I was surrounded by swirling leaves falling off the trees when I went out this morning :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat do they do with the sticks?
ReplyDeleteLovely scenery.
Cherie - it was lovely and shows the North West as it can be.
ReplyDeleteUber - follow the link and it explains it. :)
I assume you're not referring to your heart as "curmudgeonly" cause it isn't.
ReplyDeleteI can just imagine the scene you show and describe. Absolutely lovely.
"The World Poohsticks Championship" - only in England...!
ReplyDeleteI used to play Poohsticks at a bridge on a stream outside Swansea (it ran through a wooded valley, which was obviously the Hundred Acre Wood) Your camera-phone has done a reasonable job of depicting the scenery you had to suffer. Beautiful!
Ehat a beautiful place James
ReplyDeleteAll over Britain, this and it is the best season, IMHO, right now.
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