An interesting day, starting with a bag and flag event at 7 a.m. to highlight the issue of dog fouling in the village, and then teaching in the morning and the afternoon. For the morning session I was able to take Monty into the class, as a model animal, while we considered the characteristics of living things!
Sadly it was too dark to take photographs as we walked around Clearhedges, having finished teaching for the day at five. Its such a peaceful place with its combination of open areas completely surrounded by quiet woods, yet giving more distant views out onto the neighbouring hills and slopes with their small fields, shaws, orchards and oast houses. The whole landscape is so utterly civilised, rich and settled. The neighbouring fields sown to winter cereals are very well established now, compared to the pictures taken only a month ago, and the coppiced areas are also going to be very good next spring I think.
I was particularly impressed by the numbers of Prickly Sowthistle, Sonchus asper, in the oil seed rape stubble of the central Clearhedges field. Despite its size of anything up to a metre and its robust spiky and thistle-like appearance its actually only an annual plant! Perhaps I'll get a chance to look more closely at the botanical characteristics of this species and its three relatives on another occasion.
Sadly it was too dark to take photographs as we walked around Clearhedges, having finished teaching for the day at five. Its such a peaceful place with its combination of open areas completely surrounded by quiet woods, yet giving more distant views out onto the neighbouring hills and slopes with their small fields, shaws, orchards and oast houses. The whole landscape is so utterly civilised, rich and settled. The neighbouring fields sown to winter cereals are very well established now, compared to the pictures taken only a month ago, and the coppiced areas are also going to be very good next spring I think.
I was particularly impressed by the numbers of Prickly Sowthistle, Sonchus asper, in the oil seed rape stubble of the central Clearhedges field. Despite its size of anything up to a metre and its robust spiky and thistle-like appearance its actually only an annual plant! Perhaps I'll get a chance to look more closely at the botanical characteristics of this species and its three relatives on another occasion.
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