A fenland churchyard

A ten degree drop in the temperature today, back to much more typical April weather. I spent the morning scrabbling around on a steep drain bank with the Wildlife Trust and engineers from the local IDB, monitoring the population of Deptford Pink which unfortunately seems to have declined a lot since last year, though being an annual/biennial, this may just be a natural fluctuation in numbers.

I then spent a few hours botanising round the village of Wigtoft and the churchyard at Quadring (seen above), which is very rural and quite isolated from its parent village. It has an aura of benign neglect, which I found quite attractive, and this has also allowed a good assemblage of ferns to colonise the more shaded stone walls.