Ashprington Walk...

Yesterday Steve got home early, (6pm). As it was raining so heavily yesterday, there was no chance of making silage, so it was a boring day at the office...

Because of this, we decided to do something... go for a walk...


Steve had seen this track on a map, and we decided we'd like to check it out. It looked to be a few kms each way. On went the wellies and rain jackets- although it seemed to have cleared up!


It is really beautiful there, it's about 3 miles away from Totnes, and a lot of the land belongs to Sharpham trust- a Buddhist study centre/retreat/vineyard...The beautiful Dart, looking downstream

We walked on a muddy road, lined with hedgerows...

Unsurprisingly the sky opened up again, and the rain grew torrential... It was so beautiful though, (I really am growing to appreciate this rain stuff- today I went for a 6km bike ride in the driving rain)...

We walked right to the banks of the Dart, passing a beautiful old barn, (still in use). It had a partially collapsed old, old wall surrounding it...

The wall had these enormous, (I think they were oaks), growing right on top of the wall, (those sections were remarkably intact!)the roots just reached down over the wall into the soil...

On the banks of the river there was a tyre swing... I went so high I screamed...

It was a hard walk back up the hill, as I was feeling a little queasy after the swing!

We got home at 9pm, and didn't eat dinner til 10pm... bed 11pm... hmmmn