Towards the Clouds

We visited Lavenham this afternoon, a delightful place in Suffolk but not too chocolate-box.  Many properties looked expensive, but the pubs looked good.

On the edge of the town the footpath ran through a field of crops so we walked towards the brow in case there was something exciting over the hill.  The opportunity for a blip was unmistakeable.

But in the morning we walked around the RSPB Reserve of Wolves' Wood, a very pleasurable hour's walk with many majestic trees to see as well as the "underwood" (from Dr Oliver Rackham's Illustrated History of the Countryside) – not the undergrowth, but the newer and smaller timber that would have been used for items like wattle in houses long ago.

Someone reading this is bound to know more about it, but there were many painted stones as well – well done and not at all tacky.