Staying Closer to Home and Making Discoveries

The current lock down may be inconvenient but it does have some positives.

We have lived in the village of Healing for over two years but have really seen very little of it but with wider restrictions on travel we have been exploring the lanes and paths nearby.

There is good network of footpaths and bridle ways and there seems to no conflict with the local farmers about easy access even when they cut directly across farmland and crops. It is easy walking because much of the landscape of the parish is low-lying agricultural land and the sea level is just around fifteen feet and is drained by man-made drains.

We walked south today and covered a distance of almost eight miles, five miles across the fields and then three more back to the village along Wells Road.  In the Victorian period two mineral springs were discovered in the parish, one was fresh water, the other chalybeate (salts of iron) which were said to be effective in curing skin disorders.  The site of the springs, which still flow, is on Wells Road and the village is called Healing as a consequence.

The current spell of fine weather has encouraged Spring to accelerate and all along the trail the trees were beginning to burst into leaf…

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The farmers around here take good care of the land and everywhere is mostly clean and tidy but someone always has to spoil it…

In the afternoon we sat in the garden and watched the seedlings growing.  Isolation is such good fun…

Later as afternoon tipped over into evening we followed the progress of the Pink Supermoon…

Amusing to think that fifty years ago man flew a quarter of a million miles to the moon but right now can’t leave the end of the road!