A Walk In Coed Tamsin.

We had lovely spring weather, not too hot and not too cold for today's walk in Coed Tamsin, the woods belonging to Bob and Felicia. The short track down to the parking space in the woods is too rutted for my little car so I parked up in a clearing and walked down. Just before that I had come across a lamb running in the road trying its best to get back into the field from which it had escaped. I stopped and opened the metal gate, through which it was trying to jam its head but the gate opened the wrong way and the lamb shot past me and off down the lane before I could grab it. I had no choice but to leave it and I'm sure it would either find its way back into the field or be found by the farmer. 

For once we began the afternoon by eating our lunch in the clearing flanked by neat piles of wood, two pole lathes and Bob's workshops.

After lunch we went for a gentle stroll through the woods that at this time of year are carpeted with bluebells, and celandines, herb Robert, violets and the occasional kingcup.

There was quite a change to the woods since our last visit as so many trees had fallen in the storms. And they were not little trees either so that has meant a lot of hard work to clear them. Now the woods are a lot more open and new trees have been planted in some of the clearings.

Afterwards we returned to the cottage and its amazing woodland garden with stunning flowering shrubs. A small group of us ended up sitting next to the large pond, enjoying the sun and watching out for the newts hiding under the lily pads. Then back to the cottage garden lawn for tea and biscuits.