Saturdays walk

I got up early on Saturday as my partner Barbara was working. She works some Saturdays, not every one.

I decided to take the dogs out for a run which is about 10minutes drive from home.
We went along the drain bank which you may call a river, but in the fens these are man made drains to move water from dykes around fields, but they are like rivers and have plenty of fish.


In the fens these drains run for miles in straight lines and are pumped out into rivers or the Wash on the east coast.
The birds were singing and for a change there were no RAF planes flying so you could hear all the birds.

These owl boxes have become home to jackdaws but one has a barn owl inside the box and jackdaws have the roof part.

The owls leave lots of pellets around the boxes and some days you can see the one hunting along the drain banks.

The Drainage boards have erected lots of these boxes along the drains in the fens.

The railway runs alongside the drain and these travellers were heading to Boston & Skegness

This just shows how flat the fens are. The dykes and drains were excavated to reclaim the land from the sea.

The 13 wind turbines you can see were not working when I started my walk but were working when I got back to the car.

The wind blows a lot in this area. Lincolnshire used to have about 850 wind mills grinding corn in the late 1800's. Now there are wind turbines on the horizons.

Over the last 20 years there have been lots of trees planted in the fens.

The dogs had a good run and when I came back home I worked on the garden over the road which we call 'the plot'.

It has 2 green houses and a shed. The garden is set out with raised beds, fruit trees and bushes.

We grow most things but buy greens such as cauliflowers, cabbages, broccoli and potatoes.

The local farm shop sells cauliflowers sometimes 4 for £1 but people still buy them from the local supermarket.