Easter Sunday

I do like a good dry stone wall.

A good walk today from Tideswell, taking in five dales - Tansley dale, Cresswell dale, Water cum Jolly dale, Millers dale, and then on the return leg Tideswell dale. Much of the area is part of an extensive National Nature Reserve, which meant we saw few sheep (they would have eaten the botanical interest). We are tempted to come back in two weeks time to see the wild garlic in Cresswell Dale, it carpets whole hillsides and the valley floor, under the shade of the wonderful ash woodland. 

Notwithstanding what botanists regard as important, one of my favourite flowering plants at the moment is the dandelion. The displays of this "weed" on road verges and field edges are wonderful at present (partly why I chose the dry stone wall for my blip today)..

Extras - looking towards Cresswell Dale, and (as it is Easter Sunday) Tideswell parish church - the so-called Cathedral of the Peak. Behind the church is a building used by the Tideswell Men's Voice Choir. It has an unusual president, one Edwina Curry (Jones), who yet again hit the headlines last year in a court case involving the choir and its former leader. Worth googling