Behind The Star |
The Star, Standon |
Patmore Heath |
Patmore Heath |
It was the weekend of Furneux Festival. Plenty of village celebrations of all kinds. In the church was a Country Shop selling local produce, mainly preserves of one kind or another. I bought a jar of medlar jelly.
Furneux Pelham is really quite lovely, with a good number of quality village houses as seen below.
A new house being built |
Who allowed planning consent for this? |
Rain was forecast for Sunday but the first two hours were really quite nice and sunny. Torrential rain was falling further west but, although it rained on us later in the morning walking back to Standon, it wasn't that bad. Braughing was very pleasant with a couple of good pubs and a picturesque ford.
I hadn't realised that the practice of pargeting extended into Hertfordshire. This was a fine example.
Shortly before crossing back over the A10 into Standon, we passed through the village of Nasty. Not far over the border into Essex, there's a village called Ugley.
If proliferation of hedgerow fruit is a sign of a hard winter to come, we are in for a bad one! I've never seen so many blackberries, elderberries, sloe, hawthorn and rosehips.
Hey, another IPA fan! Must try the medlar jelly...
ReplyDeleteThat tarp in the first photo, apart from its colour, looks remarkably like my wonderful Cave 1. Was it sewn from a Jardine kit?
ReplyDeleteI find, in the absence of trees for the side lifters, that pegging them out at the very end of the guy line still gives a useful bit more internal space and tightens the pitch.
Those pubs are seriously picturesque.