village to village

After a hearty breakfast we drive to Newick. There's parking behind the village Hall. I say, We can park here.

We pull in and...a man tells us that parking is not allowed. He's quite nice about it. The Hall is booked for noon, a busload of people arriving from the French town twinned with Newick.

Oh well. We move the car and park on a side street called... Cricket Pitch. I wonder what used to happen there :-?

We're looking for a footpath from Newick to Fletching.

We park and walk to nearby shops.

First, we buy postage stamps. Weeks ago I bought a couple of postcards for grandchildren. Finally I addressed them, Today I post them.

The PO man seems to know nothing about postage! But he sells us stamps, we hope they are okay. We expect that we'll be home before the cards.

Next we need to find the start of the walk. We're in a pharmacy. There's a man standing under a sign saying, Prescriptions, Advice. His advice is good, we find the path.

The path starts narrow, between walls of weeds and brambles.

Then ploughed fields, fields with crops just starting, fields with sheep... and lambs. Feeding, sleeping, standing. One farmer seems to specialise in black lambs. One lamb sees us and trots to mum. mum ignores us.

There's a small patch of woods either side of a river..A Boardwalk across.

A bit later we're on a sealed but minor road, over a bridge,the river is larger, a couple of metres across, perhaps one deep.

There are some nice houses. One is called Mill House, they have a robot lawnmower puttering back and forth across the lawn. I'm fascinated :-)

One house has a dock on the river. Very nice, unless you have little children.

For some reason that reminds me... In England, dogs are allowed nearly everywhere. Parks, pubs, restaurants.

One garden does have dog free areas, near ponds. They also provide sort of large shepherds crooks. My guess is, the hooks are to rescue dogs which are foolish enough to leap in the water.

And so we walk.

On a farm, I think we've found a piece of modern art, there may be a photo in a separate post. Turns out, the art installation is... an old piece of farm machinery.

We finally reach Fletching. I'll post this and continue in a separate post...

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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