Graham's walk from the pub car park at Haresfield
It's an Echium, Olivia tells me
We cross the road
And go over the railway line
Cranes from Javelin Park in the distance
Looks like an old orchard
One of many difficult stiles that hold us up
A train passes while we queue
And everyone has to wait until we're all over
Horses on the horizon
An idyllic cottage
They are dying to get out in the field
We bypass the farm
House and dog in matching colours (and the sheets on the line were also white!)
A wooden guard bird of prey
Coffee outside this cottage
A novel way to carry one's banana skin
Several intrepid South Cots keep these at bay until we get through. They look more peaceful from this side of the hedge
Stonehouse in the distance
Another wait for a stile
This one as bad as many
Olivia backmarking through more peaceful cows
We pass the construction site at Standish Gate
Under the railway line
No he isn't, Ann is
A wooden owl
Another wait
Standish church in sight
Through one field of wheat
Round another
Olivia still at the back
Then it's beans
Some people can hardly be seen in the beans
Another terrible stile at Standish church
It isn't any better from the other side
And another
We wait by the roadside
Our rush to get back to the pub is thwarted by the train
And then the light goes green
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