Dust off your virtual walking boots if you fancy coming with me on a wee walk. It was cold this afternoon but the sun was shining so we decided to take a walk in the afternoon, it has been months and months since we did this walk.

We managed the very steep grassy hill much more easily than we thought we would, and that eventually leads to the snowdrops, they were a bit disappointing as that area seemed to have shrunk since last year, either some of the bulbs have rotted in boggy ground due to all the rain we’ve been having, or the local badgers have been scoffing them!

Sadly quite a few huge trees had been blown over in the recent storms and we had to divert from the path to avoid them. Trees are blown down at every storm nowadays, always the biggest and oldest of course, but there never seems to be any tree planting going on. I see young trees being thrown into the ground and heeled in on TV but what about the old woodlands?  They need to be rejuvenated.

Anyway, it was really good to be able to stretch our legs among the trees for a change – and it didn’t rain!