A bit late out, so back on the Ewell by-pass run yesterday afternoon, that it to say coming back via the Old Kingston Road rather than Ruxley Lane.
Rather more striking in real life than would appear in the snap. A couple of old bracket fungi on a more or less derelict tree in the grounds of what used to St. Ebba's Hospital. A hospital which does live on, albeit in rather attenuated form. Brackets from last year? Older?
Even more striking was the display of dog roses along the post-and-rail fence along the boundary, just one of which is snapped above. I don't know how long they will last, but they were looking very good yesterday afternoon. With some of the specimen trees planted by a former director visible behind: with one story being that the former director was a tree-nut, another being that he took in valuable specimens from Kew Gardens for safe keeping during the second world war.
And I was pleased to see that someone, presumably the council, had cleared away the dollop of garden waste noticed at the end of reference 1. The system works!
This morning, for the first time for a while I did the Malden Rushett - Chessington North run: plenty of traffic and taking about an hour.
The most notable feature was lots of very large cow parsley before and after Malden Rushett, some of which must have been well over two metres high, although probably not as much as three. Enough to make using the low grade cycle path running between Christchurch and Malden Rushett rather a pain. Let's hope the cars appreciated being able to get past me without having to wait for oncoming traffic.
Home to sit under the nut tree, in the shade, admiring the oak tree over the pond. To be rewarded with a confirmed sighting of a nuthatch grubbing about in a lower fork - with there having been a couple of unconfirmed or BH sightings in the past few days. Plus what looked like a small great tit singing away at the very top of a neighbouring cypress tree of some sort. Perhaps I will get around to having the monocular to hand when I sit in the garden for confirmations.
PS: not very happy about the loss of picture quality under the new regime, with these two being a long way from what I get from the originals. Dog rose particularly poor. Maybe I will have to make inquiries.
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