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We walk our two dogs in the tranquility of Two Tree Island in Essex every morning and today was no exception.
This Friday morning the sun was shining bright in a clear blue sky in which the only things to be seen were the contrails of three noiseless aircraft high above us.
Among the varied birdsong were the grasshopper warblers competing with the croaking of the pheasants, the cries of the gulls, the sweet songs of the blackbirds as well as the nightingales which have been with us for the last four days. And, for the first time this year, above them all were the repetitive noisy calls of the cuckoo.
At high tide, the waters of the Thames Estuary were as placid as they could possibly be. Various ships were passing up and down, including Marco Polo, the first cruise ship to call into Tilbury this year. Down by Southend Pier could be seen an old Thames barge with its distinctive brown sail.
The resident badger has been busy, as could be seen from the many areas it has dug over in the search for tasty earthworms and roots. Rabbits, untroubled by our presence, grazed among the daffodils well away from our dogs which, in any event, are couch-potatoes and too lazy to bother giving chase.
Everywhere are the signs of spring and the coming summer. Many of the blossoms are in full bloom and the buds on the trees and bushes are slowly uncurling. The landscape which was brown and bare is turning green and lush in this little corner of our world. Across Leigh Creek and above Leigh Downs, Hadleigh Castle positively shone in the early morning sunshine and cows grazed peacefully beneath it in the bright green grass.
Truly this was a morning when God was in his heaven and all was certainly well with the world.
Politicians excepted!
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We walk our two dogs in the tranquility of Two Tree Island in Essex every morning and today was no exception.
This Friday morning the sun was shining bright in a clear blue sky in which the only things to be seen were the contrails of three noiseless aircraft high above us.
Among the varied birdsong were the grasshopper warblers competing with the croaking of the pheasants, the cries of the gulls, the sweet songs of the blackbirds as well as the nightingales which have been with us for the last four days. And, for the first time this year, above them all were the repetitive noisy calls of the cuckoo.
At high tide, the waters of the Thames Estuary were as placid as they could possibly be. Various ships were passing up and down, including Marco Polo, the first cruise ship to call into Tilbury this year. Down by Southend Pier could be seen an old Thames barge with its distinctive brown sail.
The resident badger has been busy, as could be seen from the many areas it has dug over in the search for tasty earthworms and roots. Rabbits, untroubled by our presence, grazed among the daffodils well away from our dogs which, in any event, are couch-potatoes and too lazy to bother giving chase.
Everywhere are the signs of spring and the coming summer. Many of the blossoms are in full bloom and the buds on the trees and bushes are slowly uncurling. The landscape which was brown and bare is turning green and lush in this little corner of our world. Across Leigh Creek and above Leigh Downs, Hadleigh Castle positively shone in the early morning sunshine and cows grazed peacefully beneath it in the bright green grass.
Truly this was a morning when God was in his heaven and all was certainly well with the world.
Politicians excepted!
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