David

The pool by the waterfall in Badger Dingle. Confusingly, it is at a lower level than the pools in the village.

Rooms excavated out of sandstone in Badger Dingle.

In the days before refrigerators, servants of the occupants of the big house would pack snow and ice in these deep places in the winter. The rooms were cool enough that the contents would stay all summer available for use as they melted very slowly.

The theme of today’s posts is Badger – the Shropshire village, not the mammal.

For starters, a couple of views across the lower pool in the middle of the village to the quaint thatched house by the water’s side.

Highlight of a visit yesterday to Northycote Farm was a Gloucester Old Spot sow and her litter of piglets which I thought looked less than a day old.

Eat, sleep, grow.

Other subjects, including lambs and an older litter of piglets of the same species, to follow when I get around to posting them.

The long cold spell delayed all the spring flowers, but bluebells are now here

These were in the woodland margin of Barley Field.

A water beetle making a hearty meal from some of the frog spawn
in the pool at Wightwick Manor garden.