Geese vs parks

 
Canadian geese are probably the least liked of all birds to be found in Britain. They can be aggressive and hard to disperse.  But, worse than this it seems, park managers despair when they see the birds settle on their patches. This is because, over time, the birds simply nibble away at the luscious swards - and create bare grounds of uncovered mud. There are even guides online on how to cull them (humanel, of course).

The geese like to settle by water.  Here they have destroyed the greens on the riverside walk in Burton.

Singles at Hoar Cross

 

Despite being a relatively young church (built 1876), Holy Angels at Hoar Cross is a stunner, and gets hugely high ratings from both visitors and 'church-crawlers'.  

However, this photo is of the church's single pews (I've neer seen single pews before).  They could almost have been custom made for worship in a time of Covid social distancing...!

Wet lands

 
It has been wet wet wet underfoot.  The snow-melt didn't help either.
I thought if I walked on the top of the ridge at Kingsley it would be drier, but the fields were sodden even up there.
On a track, just twenty yards down from the top, I saw this pipe, which is a farmer's way of trying to drain the excess water from the land.  Some hope... it just kept on gushing, so much so that it was creating a completely new runnel beneath it.