Hiking about the windy countryside this past few weeks has been a real endurance test for me.
With the weather having been rather cold, the first fields being ploughed and along with them the footpaths, it has become that time of year when going out and about in the countryside starts to be a trial rather than an enjoyment. But rather than be a low point for ones who enjoy nature and the countryside there is now plenty of time to catch up with some reading and planning new forays. Here are a few that I found interesting recently.
The past few weeks or so have seemed to be noisy ones. Bourne has been in the process of being bombarded with the screeching, roaring, booming noise of military aircraft performing aerial manoeuvres overhead. My windows shook, quite literally at one point. The damp, earthy, woody scent of the final moments of autumn in the woods replaced by the acrid smell of kerosene based aviation fuel.
