On My Bike

 I haven't done an "On My Bike " post since moving in even though I've done this short bike ride for exercise quite often. It's only a tad over 3 miles and goes out of the village on one road and back in again on a back road and then out of the village on a different road, along a lane in a loop and back into the village again  close to home.

Out of the village past the doctors surgery. The front door has been boarded up since July. There's building work going on - although it's all come to a halt -there were rumours it was closing completely.

But it will re-open properly when the materials arrive for the builders to finish. The Pharmacy are dishing out prescription medications from a window!

Quite unusual to see old farm buildings falling down and unused. Usually they are turned into new homes and barn conversions.

This is the farmhouse that owns the buildings

 I was trying to zoom in on the weather-vane, first a couple walking their dog stopped to ask me what I was doing, then I had to leap out of the way when a huge lorry turned into the lane where I was standing and finally a Suffolk County Council Highways van stopped to take a photo of a road sign. It's all excitement around here!

These are the red and yellow cherry plum trees where I picked up some fruit to add to my fruit syrup earlier in the year.I'll remember to look again next year.

What is this?. The bottom of an early lamp post perhaps.

An old pub, closed sometime around 25 years ago maybe, it was popular when we lived around this way before. There is still one pub hanging on in the village.

This little lane is called Wash Lane. I think many villages had a Wash Lane where a stream would have crossed the road, perhaps they would have dipped sheep or washed down the heavy horses here. The stream is now just a small ditch and goes under the road.

The small dots on the wires are a gathering of starlings. Are they gathering to leave or have they just arrived or just having a chat?

A view of part of the village from one of the "high" bits on the lane

Every year I think about making rose-hip syrup. There are loads along the hedges in the lane here. Perhaps next year I will. It's a bit of a fiddly job due to the irritant hairs in the hips. Elderberry syrup is much easier.

 
Then down the bit of a hill and home.

Back Tomorrow

Sue