Sunny Sussex Bank Holiday

 Trying out a new blog site with the best weather for walking! I am so lucky to  have fantastic walks on my doorstep and two dogs to enjoy them with.

It was really quiet this morning: lots of deer around, mist in the valley and very little traffic but it didn't take long for the world to wake up. If you are in the sunny southeast, I hope that you can get out and enjoy the Bank Holiday weather. If it is not so good where you are, just get out and keep moving!

 Following the relative success of my school blog, here is the grown up version! (Just trying a new site.)

As we move into September, thoughts turn to a new school year (not very grown up so far) and this seems a perfect time to start a new project.  I aim to bring together a mixture of photos of my walks and thoughts about wildlife and mental health.  It will mostly be in Sussex where I am based near Ashdown Forest, although I am starting with something that I found very exciting over the summer: evidence of Beavers that we saw near the River Tay in Scotland.  

There were three stumps which had been gnawed like this, although they hadn't managed to dam the river as it is very wide and fast flowing at this point. Something we don't see on our walks in Sussex.