Sunday 5 September 2010

Sunday 5th September 2010

A quick morning call to work left me with an hour of so to kill before I headed off for rugby, so I took a binless walk along the Ridge, canal towpath then riverside walk to the station a a nice warm sunny morning. Without having to try and see everything that moves as per usual it was a relaxing way to kill an time and appreicate what a gem the area is, tending to not see the wood for the trees most of the time. From the industrail landscape of the Grand Union Canal to the sound and sights of the Ouse to the panorama view from the Ridge with (on a clear day) Buckingham far off in the distance to your left though the woods around Whittlebury, Cosgrove Church, Hanslope Spire and Park then the outskirts of Salcey Forest to your right and all in between. A real English country vista I'm sure most of us overlook.
**One thing I did note was the Ouse is being kept low by pumping up of water at the Iron Trunk into the canal. Little danger of flooding at present and it seems somewhat of a waste in power as the water rejoins the river system at the overflow into Bradwell Brook a mile or so, as the crow flies, to the east by the new Aquaduct.

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