Lyndon Top Campsite overlooks Rutland Water. Rather than lots of white caravans and motorhomes set out in regimented rows it’s a park where you fancy type of place. That’s mostly because it is absolutely huge. There are seven camping fields set out over different locations in what looks like parkland. If you walk the boundary of the site you will see a very mature hedgerow with lots of different species in it.
I walked along it last night for two reasons. Firstly, because it was warm and windy and that’s my absolute favourite weather. The second reason was to test myself to see how many trees and bushes I could recognise. The only one that caught me out was spindle. As I slowly went along the hedgerow I began thinking about how hasty even nature can be sometimes. Not ten weeks ago there was barely a leaf to be seen on most trees now they have flowered, done their thing and their various fruits are developing. In a few weeks they will mature and for them apart from trying to put as much back in to the roots as they can before winter it will be all over. The first to die back will be the horse chestnut. As if to agree with the trees there was five minutes less daylight today than there was during the summer solstice only ten days ago.
