Another Country Diary #2

With ploughs and a pink fox.

Watch out Substack townies, here comes the second instalment of the ‘country diary’ you never asked for.

The first instalment of ‘Another Country Diary’ can be read HERE.

17/9

A morning spent in front of the computer—emails, online meetings, and so on. We go for a circular lunchtime walk as the sun comes out, taking the route along the long hedge and bridleway, past the old brickworks wood, then through the fields to ‘the top’ and back past the old farmhouse, through the lanes, and home.

The long hedge was cut in the early spring following work on the ditch, and none of the apple trees are producing. Usually it is abundant with crab apples, coxes, and varieties we don’t know the names of. There are blackberries which we pick and eat as we walk.

In the old brickworks wood we try to work out what is growing in the green plastic tree tubes. Some seem to have oak in them, others perhaps hazel. The wood was clear felled of a load of dying ash trees a couple of years ago. It is a damp wood of …