Seven Sisters Stroll

The rich colours of the English Channel, seen on a bracing walk with Mrs Catspaw from the car park at Birling Gap up onto the top of the Seven Sisters. This is the view looking westwards from Went Hill: the next summit is Michel Dean, where (for reasons of time) we turned inland and followed the bridle path back to Birling Gap, through a landscape rich in wildlife, especially a wide variety of butterflies.

To the right of the main photograph can be glimpsed the Obelisk marking the Robertson War Memorial Bequest (seen in close-up in today's 'Extra'), which records that "MICHEL DENE WAS BEQUEATHED TO THE NATIONAL TRUST BY W. A. ROBERTSON IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHERS NORMAN CAIRNS ROBERTSON CAPTN. 2ND BATT. HAMPSHIRE REGT WHO DIED 20TH JUNE 1917 AT HANOVER GERMANY AND OF LAURANCE GRANT ROBERTSON 2ND LIEUT 2ND BATTALION KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE DURING THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME IN OR NEAR DELVILLE WOOD 30TH JULY 1916."

Mrs Catspaw and I recalled how we had visited Delville Wood on a visit we made to some of the WWI battlefields in Northern France around the turn of the Millennium.