In the footsteps of the Romans
The county awakes to its first snow textured landscape of the winter. A scant covering, on unfrozen soil, but enough for the children to tumble out into snowballs, snowman building and careering down north facing slopes on a variety of contraptions; that is until they rub the snow away.
Harper's Brook is a significant tributary of the Nene, winding south-east from Corby, down a shallow valley, past Brigstock, Sudborough and Lowick, before jagging north and joining the Nene at Aldwincle. Between Sudborough and Lowick the valley floor is mostly still grazing land. One field contains a couple of dozen young Suffolk rams, thick set, black legs and head, and characteristically long and droopy black ears. They loaf about in little squads, watching us with mock disinterest.
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