The large patch of Field Madder in the lawn at 53 Kellaway Avenue is still flowering strongly.
A long pathway between a sports ground and allotments, running parallel to Kellaway Avenue, has the feel of a country lane about it. Near the inconspicuous alley leading to it from Kings Drive are some English Elm suckers, now with fresh new leaves.
A plant of an ‘escaped’ Spotted Deadnettle (Lamium maculatum) was noted under the large willow on the left. It was accompanied by the related White Deadnettles and Hedge Woundwort.
Tall hedges flank the lane either side, with some Prunus in flower. Bramble, nettles, Cow Parsley, Traveller’s Joy (Clematis vitalba), Garlic Mustard, Lesser Celandine and Cuckoo Pint added to the rural feel at this time.
As dusk began to fall a crescent moon, and dark rain clouds with a thin orange sky below made a fine sight.
An adult fox was seen at the junction of Longleat Close and St. Margaret’s Drive. A second was running along Owen Grove, too busy with its nose to the ground to realise I was there. A third was seen crossing the Henleaze Road end of Fallodon Way.
A horrible orange glare from completely undirected lights around the by now closed Henleaze Junior School, and the lit-up powered roll-over advertising hoarding recently erected on the North View side of Waitrose, touched raw nerves on two of my bigger bugbears – light pollution and energy profligacy. Come on people, it’s 2008, you know the score …...
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