Blooming

While not usually a match for the limestone areas of the Peak, on the right day Blacka's flowers can be spectacular. Today was such a day, benefiting from the absence of farm animals - no sheep on the pasture land allowing orchid to appear......... and no cattle on the moor giving us a splendid show of bog asphodel and bell heather.

How can we best express our gratitude for the absence of these farm animals ? I'm sure SWT would preferthat the cows and sheep were there chomping their way through much that makes the place attractive and interesting; and Unnatural England's too. If they could get them back tomorrow they would do so, and the fate of the flowers would not influence them nor would the general visual appeal and atmosphere of the site as a whole. After all they do not spend their own spare time here so why should they bother ? The important thing for them is to be able to tick a few boxes alongside statements devised by some remote committee whose members similarly have never been here. What a wonderful world.