Category: Spring
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Venford brook and waterfall
It’s spring, but it’s not really spring, feeling and looking like late winter, still. I have 3 hours, and point the car toward Ashburton, not knowing where I will end up. On the steep road uphill from Ashburton to Poundsgate, I find myself turning off for Holne. At Holne I find myself continuing toward Venford…
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A Very Local Spring – Part 3
It’s a grey but warm summer’s day early in July, as I write this, and I’m just back from a local walk from home up into the Haldon Hills by way of another green lane. It’s new to me (how much I’m enjoying discovering all these old routes!): steep, narrow, dark, sunken and contains some…
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A Very Local Spring
Part 1 The longest day is now behind us, and I remember wanting to write a post or two about my favourite season last spring, but never really took the time to pull images and text together. We had moved in November 2020 to Chudleigh, south Devon, from Teignmouth, and in the spring of 2021…