EverCreech/Lamyatt
Tuesday 24th April – Evercreech/Lamyatt
Walk Leaders: Keith & Nicky
Description A pleasant easy walk across rolling countryside to Lamyatt.
A very ancient pre-neolithic village a vist to Lamyatt Church and then making our away back across open fields to The Natterjack skirting the old S&D railway line.
Report
In the natter at the Natterjack,
Where once puffing locos belched
Sterling tolls exacted Nicky, and
Keith the gathered score did brief:
Said he, dedicated to John now gone,
Lovell was his name and foxy headgear sported he,
Mourned now his sudden loss, disbelief.
He loved this walk. All loved the man.
By the Brue the crew imbrewed,
Sweet nature’s apple blossom and
Sweet garlic’s wild pungent scent,
And campions growing near.
Along lanes and paths and meadows many
Traipsed the spritely gang,
In the leaders wake here and there, here and there,
Till the kissing gate he found.
Cheerful Peter cheerfully eye to sky,
Cheered by none his acrobatic dive,
Save the raucous rooks, croaking madly
From rookeries on high.
Lamyatt reached, Welch house majestic,
Solid residence of gentlemanly hue.
He of Wadham nature fame,
To Oxford all though his bursaries endowed.
Amber buds of oaks a-bursting,
Lush foliage green abound,
Dandelion yellow and seeds hour telling.
And elderflower here and there.
Stepping on, by woodcote barn chatting on
Of tulip farms of Holland’s Keukenhof;
The Cymry Crwys recalled in unison
From school memory reciting Melin Trefin.
More flat fields and grasses high
A slope to Rum Shed improvised n
Near Mary and John, Saints, old, old Church;
The sun willing through a picnic there.
One more rise, to vistas wide,
Tractors two, two big tractors huge and loader low
Full lane wide, progress slow;
And then behold a butterfly - Speckled Wood.
Four miles trod and more
The Natterjack restored.
Well victualled to homes go
After loud ta’s and thank you very much to K and N,
and to John.
Report by Stan