A good day for an intrepid exploration of Challock Forest, although the walk gets a very small turn-out presumably because there have been big black clouds threatening and the news is full of floods and land slides, the walk is advertised as "The 6 Miler" - not everyone's cup of tea, and finally everyone's presumably stuck indoors with the new (and final) Harry Potter book. No matter. We get a lovely walk - none of the threatening rain falls except for a small shower when we are well hidden in a chunk of thick chestnut coppice. These pics are of us mooching around one of the ponds to cool off. You can see from the final pic, that we got fairly manky, but then, what are wood walks for?
Since then we've been to a garden centre for a pruning saw and Dad has had at some of the garden's overgrown bushes and trees - the Vibernum, Bay and Paulownia for a start. I helped by standing under the ladder and breaking the fall of the sawn off bits - in case they should get damaged hitting the concrete.
And the day has gone on getting better - Mum and Dad have just come back from shopping with a bulging pack of meaty raw-pork ribs for us. We do love those and it keeps us quiet for a while - this is "a good thing" apparently, especially now that Mum has been to Tesco and has returned with the aforementioned work of wizardy fiction, in which she will now be buried to the exclusion of all distractions (like cooking food, playing with dogs etc) until completion. 700 pages? ETA Sunday night, if not before. Book will then be handed to Dad who should finish is some time in July 2008
Have a great weekend
Deefs
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