Warburg Reserve
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 by lunamanIf you have a spare afternoon, visit the wonderful Warburg Nature Reserve, near Henley. A quiet Chilterns valley down a single track road in the slush. In a gap between clients, I made a short trip there to record what I could – mostly robins, which at last I can identify! The classification part of my brain is very mushy, so most of my bird identification notes read something like ‘large bird, probably brown, tweets a bit’. However, the sound below is most likely a buzzard? The wood floor was covered with a great soft surface of moss and beech nuts.
There’s always that stage with new shoes – they’re horrible and ugly and big and shiny and white and clean. You want to get them all muddy to show how you’re not out running for the very first time ever, but it seems to take ages, even going out in the rain and through fields, to actually get them muddy. Then finally, they are taken by the mud – literally. Yes, today, on a bright sunny afternoon, I left my shoe behind in a muddy patch before Burgess Field. I hopped about, laughing, trying not to get my sock, which was white of course, coated in goo as well, and almost leaving my other shoe behind in the process, and finally retrieved the newly baptised shoe. Welcome, Saucony Grid Trigon 5 Ride shoe, you with the really stupidly long name and stupid blue flashes. However, it is a great shoe with lots of toe room for my almost-Morton’s Toe condition.