22nd April

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"I was called up this morning before four o'clock. It was full light to dress myself: and so by water against tide, it being a little cool, to Greenwich; and thence, only that it was somewhat foggy till the sun got to some height, walked with great pleasure to Woolwich, in my way staying several times to listen to the nightingales." Samuel Pepys, 1664 (Kent)

"As we came down the lower slopes of the wooded hillside into the glade of the park the herds of deer were moving under the brown oaks and the brilliant green hawthorns." Francis Kilvert, 1876 (Herefordshire)



And at nearly 9.00pm there was still light in the sky, though some cloud too now.
Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)


Blue skies and fields of gaudy rape... Byslantedlight, 2011 (Cambs.)