Nice frosty and sunny morning ....
27th
December 2016 (Tuesday)
.... 10.00 “Happy Birthday Emily”
who will be ... er a year older today! Somewhere between 27 and 29!
We
have an absolutely stunning morning in “Sunny Sussex”, ..... brilliant
sunshine, nae
wind, but it is frosty;
one of those perfect days for walking.
I may go over to Buxted Park to see the Hungarian Oak.... I haven’t seen
it without it’s leaves. It, the Hungarian Oak, is one of the
bonniest shaped trees in the whole of England. The weather forecast is excellent for the
remainder of ‘today’, but fog could develop tonight, leading to travel problems
tomorrow. Right now it’s the kind of weather that will
have a lot of people out walking, taking in some much needed ‘fresh air’ after
the Christmas Festivities.
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| Emily with birthday presents. |
23.30 We’ve had a real “Sunny Sussex” day; the perfect day for a walk; which is what I did.... walked over to
Buxted Park to ‘visit’ the Hungarian Oak, and St Margaret’s kirk.... the total
distance ‘walked’ was 2.9 miles. When Ann
and I were talking ‘photographs’ yesterday she mentioned ‘her oak’, and this
reminded me that I don’t have a leafless photo;
hence the walk.
First
thing after breakfast we had Emily opening her Birthday presents... always an
exciting experience, even when twen .... oops ‘silly boy’; nearly let out the fact that ‘Em’ is 28
today! Oh Oh .... there goes another
bit of Top Secret info!
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| Hungarian Oak tree in Buxted Park. |
I
did say it was a ‘perfect’ day for walking;
it was, but underfoot, with the sun melting the frozen ground, it was
treacherous. This part of Sussex has a
clay soil, and when it’s wet it is very very slippery; walking shoes, with crampons, would have been
the shoe of choice for today’s walk! I
do have a walking stick that I got from Martyn’s ‘Dad’ a couple of years
ago.... and it was extremely handy today.... in fact without it I would have
been really struggling in places.
On
the way home I went into the ‘The Ringles’ Hotel, where I had a half pint of
Harvey’s Ale, and a bowl of soup. I
was well ready for a rest, a drink and some food. Having met a lot of folk out walking, I
expected ‘The Ringles’ to be really busy, but it was very quiet, and I had a
seat by the open fire .... very ‘home from home’ it was. ‘The Ringles’ is “iggzactly” one kilometre
from Michael’s front door!
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| St Margaret's Church, Buxted. (Sussex) |
Emily
is out, celebrating her birthday, with the ‘Troops’, somewhere: They have undoubtedly had perfect weather
for celebrating a birthday .... unless they were going skiing!
I
shall sleep like a ‘log’ tonight, having had a long walk , and loads of lovely
Janice portions of grub. “Puku” (bless
his 9 pack) is loving Sussex!
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| St Margaret window. |
Photographs
: Top – Birthday girl, Next – Hungarian Oak tree in Buxted Park, Next – St
Margaret’s Church, Buxted, and Bottom – Stained Glass window in St Margaret’s
Church vestibule.
