we have been out and about this week~popping into lymington for some supplies and saw this dark green relation to 'pippin' sitting at the side of the road, its name painted on the side is 'twiggy'...there is quite a nice write up on lymington here
dont forget to click on photos for a better view!
heading to the farm shop yesterday we saw smoke rising as we passed under the bridge that takes us out of our hollow in the forest...
then flames...
no panic, its the controlled burning that takes place every year~november to march...
we could feel the heat as we passed
heading back the locally named 'lymington flyer' trundled by heading into the village. it spends its days going the 5-6 miles to lymington and lymington pier. it's made up of three of the old fashioned carriages with slam doors and those little tiny tables set between the seat (who in the uk remembers those?!) its also painted a nice vintage green.
one of the local donkeys~some have been taken off the forest or a week or two to have their foals
these have their foals already
we bought another clematis for the empty side of our arch. the little plant that you can see creeping up and along the bottom of our door comes out in tiny blue flowers, we have no idea what it is but love how it looks and so took up a clump and planted it the other side too...today i am hoping that we are going to get started on our dreadful back garden.the feeling of summer seems to have left us for the day, its grey and breezy and the old rhyme my 'gramps' hawkns would recite every year comes to mind...
'march winds & april showers bring forth may flowers'