We’ve had such a lovely day, it really seems spring is with us! here are some lines from John Clare, the Shepherds Calendar for March:
March month of ‘many weathers’ wildly comes
And where the stunt bank fronts the southern sky
By lanes or brooks where sunbeams love to lye
A cowslip peep will open faintly coy
Soon seen and gathered by a wandering boy
A tale of spring around the distant haze
Seems muttering pleasures wi the lengthening days
Morn wakens mottled oft wi may day stains
And shower drops hang the grassy sprouting plains
And on the naked thorns of brassy hue
Drip glistning like a summer dream of dew
While from the hill side freshing forest drops
As one might walk upon their thickening tops
And buds wi young hopes promise seemly swells
Where woodman that in wild seclusion dwells
Wi chopping toil the coming spring deceives
Of many dancing shadows flowers and leaves
And in his pathway down the mossy wood
Crushes wi hasty feet full many a bud
Lois Elsden 
was walking the border between derbys / cheshire – was superb day
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Brilliant day for a walk in beautiful countryside!
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indeed – shining tor was really shining
https://heartlandofengland.wordpress.com/new-mills-macclesfield-via-shining-tor-2/
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Thanks for sharing! Years since I’d been round here – only remember walking round New Mills in the snowy winter!
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should imagine lovely but a bit exposed?
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