Wasn’t it lovely this morning? Here’s a snap on the way to the session – Tower of St Leonard’s in the background:
Where the birds are, in the foreground, is
where we are meant to be next week! In the meantime, the water-meadows beside the Thames are precisely as water-meadows are supposed to be in winter.
Today’s session was to tidy up the churchyard
of this oldest church in Wallingford.
The churchyard looked in pretty good nick
after our previous visit:
And apart
from ivy, for which one volunteer found a new technique of removal:
Then of course we had to bag up the debris …
all the
while taking care not to trample the snowdrops and other bulbs peeking through:
Other signs
of spring came with this tree (pussy willow?) …
and this
dainty flower, prunus subhirtella
autumnalis:
The tea wallah brought us delicious filo pastry tart
with spinach ricotta and sun-dried tomatoes, followed of course by cake upon
cake.
After tea,
we excavated the ivy, and found a super aluminium ladder:
The colours in the first picture look weirdly autumnal.
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