Friends Nick, Rachel and their daughter Martha have recently moved from Highbury in London to East Peckham in Kent. We're looking forward to days out in the countryside with National Trust stately home and bracing walk opportunities galore in their neck of the woods. However, we may have to wait until things get a little less soggy. On our first visit to their new home, right in the heart of oasthouse country, we took off after lunch to a Country Park nearby. Every path we chose seemed to end in a lake that hadn't been there before.
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| Nick: anyone got a canoe? |
We tramped our muddy way around a once small, but now vastly expanded, lake where signs peeped out above the new waterline. The local wildlife seemed very happy with this new version of the world. As was young Martha, in her dinky wellington boots.
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| Lovely for ducks |
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| End of the pier |
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| Martha mesmerised by mud |
Evening arrived, washing the sky in pastel shades of pink and blue, the setting sun brushed the tops of the trees with a rusty haze and geese flew in formation up above us. Despite the number of people out in the park, walking dogs, and children, it was a peaceful winter evening scene.
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| The serene hour before sunset |
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| Last few one-two-three-weeees |
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| Winter dusk |
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