A month bookended by long weekends and packed with the beauty of spring.
We went up to Suffolk for the first May bank holiday weekend (which technically started in April, but I've put it all in the May revist because I can). It was lovely to spend time with a couple of friends, and I posted many pics of cute animals we saw, so go and look at them. Here's some birdsong recorded at the minster ruins (where we wild camped the year before) as a soundtrack.
Church in the middle of nowhere. This is where we first heard about Champing.
Blossom!
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Flowerheads of oilseed rape (aka canola).
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We went to a cute little May Day fair where I bought many jams and chutneys. Success.
Dan and I started summer early with a little picnic (i.e. drinking sloe gin, generously provided by one of my colleagues) in the fields out the back.
Picnicking amongst the wildflowers. Very pretty!
Milkmaids, aka Cuckoo Flowers, aka Lady's Smock. All you need to know is it's tasty and pretty.
Again, heading out to take a photo from the top of Lake Field meant taking note of the hyper-local changes in seasons. These frothy white flowers (cow parsley, I think) made a pretty addition to the footpath.
Seasonal beauty.
We went down to check out the newly reopened and rebuilt Hastings Pier. You can see a paddleboarder at the right of the frame. I'd like to try it out one day. I think I would be terrible!
The new Hastings Pier.
The cladding looks like it might have been reclaimed from the old pier, which burnt down.
And for the other May bank holiday, we nipped off to a very local campsite for a night in the tent.
A little corner of our own.
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