To be surprised, yet again, how different the one road can look when you rotate your point of view 180 degrees. Furthermore, it seemed more uphill, which is, of course, nonsense. Nonsense which I believe to be the result of there being one short sharp bit of uphill clockwise, but one long bit of gentle uphill anti-clockwise, and it is this last which one notices. One gets even more of the same effect on a bicycle.
Impressed that our local Costcutter carried red lentils, not so impressed that the packet declared them to be the product of more than once country - as tradition really requires lentils from Ontario.
On into Longmead Road where, as well as getting sightings of both sorts of wagtail, there was a small flock of chaffinches. Something that I have not seen around here for ages.
I then thought to pay a visit to the encampment mentioned at reference 1. Three caravans, one tree surgeon's pickup, sundry milk churns (very suitable, I should imagine, as water containers), several children and one mum. A fair amount of mess. There was also a very small pony on a short tether, without, as far as I could see, much access to grass. But cute, and I thought to take a picture but was deterred by the thought that travellers and cameras might not get on, at least when these last are in the hands of gadjos. Or when I might quite reasonably be suspected of being someone from the RSPCA or the HPL.
And down Horton Lane there was an opportunity to test the new telephone on a close up of some unseasonal mushrooms. I thought it turned out rather well, with a good depth of focus. But that's not to say that one can't still carp. The green of the grass, for example, is too bright and of a lurid hue; a bit of Photoshop action needed there.
Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/testing.html.
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