I missed the early sunshine this morning as we slept in a bit longer than usual. Then I started to add more local pictures to our Facebook Group which has become quite a busy forum in the covid times. I've been adding a few galleries of pictures taken in our valley over the Christmas and New Year period which seems to have appealed to many locals who are more constrained in their homes.

Back along the Horns Road, under the grey clouds I stood watching these three horses who are here for the daylight hours. They will be returned to the stables before nightfall.

Our house is about two hundred yards beyond the right hand hedgerow. The houses were built here when this whole hillside would have been a large field, called Highfield! Where this gradual slope ends at the hedge there is a near sheer drop down to the Lime Brook, just as there is at the end of our garden. Behind where I'm standing the slope rises steeply too, showing the changes to a landscape which different rock types produce. Here it is layers or strata of alternating clays and carboniferous limestone from the Jurassic geological period.