Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The Purley Way (west) playing field meadows have been cut (for hay?) and the scene is curiously rural and archaic...the A23 is under those trees!
Croydon town skyline above the trees spoils the Pieter Bruegel the Elder vibe...
Autumn is here...
But still a few lovely Meadow Browns, like this female, around...
Croydon town skyline above the trees spoils the Pieter Bruegel the Elder vibe...
Autumn is here...
But still a few lovely Meadow Browns, like this female, around...
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Saw this when I walked into the village Friday
And this handsome creature on another walk
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
5G horse?
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
That one is very easy to spot.
BoatieBird
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Sunny 
North Wales this morning
North Wales this morning
Leafster
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Ours was cut about a week or so ago. Tandridge has an arrangement with a contractor that they cut it and get to keep the hay.
The machinery they use shakes up the cut hay to let the wild flower seeds drop out so we'll have a decent meadow next year. In earlier years the hay has been cut far too soon but last year it was left a bit later as a result of the pandemic so we had a good show of flowers this year. As it's been left longer this year we should have an even more diverse show of flowers next year.
Apparently, you have to get the balance just right. Cut it too soon and not enough flowers have set seed. Cut it too late and there's a risk the cut hay will have lost its nutrients and that it will be too wet to collect. I suspect our contractors will be back soon to collect up the hay which has been drying.
There's still much debate in the local community about the chalk grassland. Some, including a lot of the dog walkers want to see it cut earlier as they see it as just a large area of grass like an "urban" park and think it should be a "manicured" lawn. They say the long grass increases the risks of picking up ticks. I've ended up with one unwanted hitch-hiker. Others see it as a rare landscape which is rich in flora and fauna. It's part of the 2% of this landscape which is all that remains in northwest Europe.
I'm pleased to hear that the local environmentalists have been winning the battle. Our local councillor set up a meeting with the district and county councils, the contractors and environmentalists and it has been agreed it will be cut no earlier than 25th July each year. I'd have preferred a few weeks later but they had to compromise.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Wow…They are usually only 2 gee
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
A Sunday morning bike ride…
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Proper 2 hour meandering stomp
woodland, grazing, heather's out here too Bahnhof Strasse, water mint, parish boundary stone (boundary's moved now), 3-way split (will identify later), tree wot i sat under, friendly horsie, a little lichen
woodland, grazing, heather's out here too Bahnhof Strasse, water mint, parish boundary stone (boundary's moved now), 3-way split (will identify later), tree wot i sat under, friendly horsie, a little lichen
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
BoatieBird
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Beautiful Beddgerlert
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
One of my favourite places I reckon.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Are your pics Dartmoor SpookyFrank?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Yup. Most recent set is from the Dart valley.
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
Lovely, I've had some good walks on Dartmoor, including falling in a bog up to my middle, not one of my better moves! We were camped near Postbridge, and walked across to Mary Tavy/Peter Tavy. Also know the area around Chagford a bit, Fingle Bridge, Castle Drogo.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
More remote working…
Ground Elder
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LeytonCatLady
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Rainbow over Wood Green.
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