Great family lunch in a pub at Shawford in Hampshire followed by a walk along the river between Shawford and Hampshire
Shawford Down walk down to the village
Old cattle breed on Shawford Down
Pub lunch next to the river…fish and chips and Abbot Ale!
Walk along the Itchen Navigation between Shawford and Eastleigh!
Epilobium hirsutum
Water vole is an endangered species in England, over the North Sea it’s called jordrotte (earth rat) and is feared by gardeners because of the damage they can do!
Bamboo!
My Aunty Margaret lived in these houses and we spent a lot of time as children by the river!
Maybe it was this hous that was my Aunt’s, but without the gnomes and trees where there’s now terassing
It’s difficult to believe that the spring foraging season has come so far here in Hampshire, UK whilst on the other side of the North Sea there are meter high banks of snow in the south!
Nettles (nesle), Urtica dioica with ramsons (ramsløk), Allium ursinum and field garlic (strandløk), Allium vineale
Cardamine hirsuta (Hairy Bittercress; Rosettkarse) in Mum and Dad’s garden
