Weed or Herb?

What ever you decide it was a pretty diversion on our Easter Saturday walk over my fields of childhood in Essex.

You can see the rest of the walk here

And I was a Super Mouse:

"Sadly I was unable to continue photographing the rest of the walk as I had to use my Magic Mouse powers and reunite a lovely Golden retriever with her Mummy.

We met them on the field leading up to the wood where we had just come from - we said 'hi' and let the dogs have a few moments of play before we both moved on in our opposite directions. Well as Ferd and I were on our way down the next field the Golden Retriever came running up behind - at first I thought oh shes got away from her Mum and decided that she wants to play with Ferd some more.

She had sat herself down in the field a little way ahead of us so I waited thinking her Mum would round the corner at any minute. No sign of Mum. I could then see that the Golden Retriever looked a little distressed so I called to her and said 'come on lets go find your Mummy'. I was worried that maybe she had fallen and hurt herself. Anyway the dog the followed and Ferd being Ferd though ohhh we played earlier. Now as soon as Ferd bounced up to her to play she cowered and yelped - at this point I was getting really worried. I called Ferd to me and talked calmly to the Golden Retriever saying that we were going to find her Mummy and bless her she came right up to me and started following closely behind.

We were in the sight of the woods now, then we saw her mum. She was fine but in a desperate state trying to find her dog and was so relieved that someone was there and had come looking (well any dog owner would do the same right?). Anyway it turned out that her dog had been attacked in the woods by two other dogs - she had been pinned down - luckily no bites just scarred. The lady was very shaken, being the owner of a dog who has suffered an attack I knew how she was feeling and I was not about to let her walk back home alone. One she needed someone to help calm her and two I didnt want her to be alone in case the other dogs and walker came along.

We had a lovely chat (being a village it was a short process to work out who my in-laws are, they are a bit more active in the village even though they had a period of abandoning the village for a while lol - where as my family have always been known as the village snobs so slightly less well known even though I have lived there most of my life - as in only properly moved away recently). By the time we had left the fields she was much calmer as was her dog and she carried on her way home as I popped into my Dads for a much needed cup of tea (only to discover that the dangerous dog is still next door so Ferd was hastily shut in the house)."