Dancing at Bishton

Posted on April 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A51, antique centre, Bishton Hall, Boatband, Dancing, Day out, Fun, nature reserve, Photo, Polka, Rugeley, Spring, Staffordshire, worsley garden centreLeave a comment

Watching my friends dance along to the Boat band. There were lots more people there but they were all behind me! I think they were dancing to a polka. Lovely surroundings and a great place to visit. Now I know where it is (down a little lane off the A51 near Rugeley in Staffordshire) I think we will go back. Even if its only to watch people dancing. It’s also close to the river and the Worsley garden centre and Nature reserve, a pub by the river and an antiques centre, so there is lots to see if you want to visit them. x

Hollyhocks!

Posted on August 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Growing, hollyhock, Lake, nature reserve, Plants, Westport lake11 Comments

Unusual to see hollyhocks on a walk round a nature reserve like Westport Lake. I guess the seeds may have been dropped by someone feeding the birds? It’s more the plant you would find in a cottage garden?

I’m glad it hadn’t been grubbed up. It suddenly reared up about six foot high next to the low hedge of the maze that has been created at the far end of the lake. It definitely is a hollyhock plant, my mum used to grow them in our garden. When the flowers fade they make big round seed heads that easily break into flat seeds, shaped a bit like orange or satsuma segments.

Curved edges

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged curved edge, Green, Hartshill Park, Learning, nature reserve, Photo, Pond, WordPressLeave a comment

I’m not sure I’m keen on curved edges to my photos. It does look interesting but with the new WordPress block editor I’m not sure if you can move the shape around and change where the image is centered. I’ll keep on playing with it to learn how it works…

Hartshill Nature reserve

Posted on March 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Exercise, Hartshill, Life, nature reserve, Staffordshire, Steep, Stoke-on trent, sunny spring day, Tired, WalkingLeave a comment

Although the nature reserve is on a steep slope, there is still a pool on it. The end with the bridge over it might be a dam. I don’t know the history of the place but there are steep steps down into it and in some areas what paths there are, are quite slippy.

I had to lean on my friends arm to get down one section, not socially distanced but I was wearing a mask.

Today was sunny with very warm temperatures, the warmest March day since 1968. Red admiral butterflies were flitting about in pairs and triplets. The bird song was loud and liquid. Buds were bursting and insects humming.

I did another five miles today, that seems to be my upper limit for walking at the moment. Tomorrows planned walk is about the same length!

Nature reserve walk

Posted on February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, catkins, Fenton, Life, nature reserve, River, Spring, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

I’ve never been to this nature reserve, and yet it’s only about a mile away behind the local University. My friend showed it me today. It takes in some hills, a lake and the River Trent. We walked quickly so I feel really tired out. Its somewhere to visit as the spring progresses. We might even have a picnic. X

Views include the river Trent, near Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent,

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