A trip into Ludlow to see stoves and advent calendars; we bought neither. But we managed to see many of the town's back streets, this eclectic mix of medieval and Georgian houses all jumbled together and no doubt growing over each other. Quiet roads and chestnut trees. Central Ludlow is very smart but the town has the usual drink and drugs problems further out. The journey in through wintry lanes was very beautiful, the hedges shaved by recent hedgetrimming and now losing their leaves, the fields bare and empty. The days have been grey and sunless, occasionally windy, misty. We have had a lot of rain recently and many roads have been flooded.
A lovely walk at dusk yesterday, down the old toll road to the tractors and the view across the valley. A muddy lane in the fading light, the bare hedges, the day turning cold in a peach sunset with not a breath of wind; it seemed as though the land is turning towards winter.
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