Ivel river walk

Ivel river walk, a set on Flickr.

At last the rain and storms have stopped. However much I know we need the rain I was very pleased to see the sun today.

After having a coffee with Alice and Pete at lunch time I decided to go for a walk a long the river Ivel. Pete kindly escorted me as I'd not walked north along the river before. In fact the path leading north is much better kept than the other one.

We also walked to the site of the Biggleswade castle. A castle that was forgotten by history; no records of a castle at Biggleswade exist but geo phys type stuff identified the earth works which would have been where the castle was.

The excitement down the river today was a fallen tree. It must have come down in the storms. Whist I was photographing it two environmental agency people turned up to inspect it.

We also met a lady walking her dog who stopped to talk to us about an old wall I was photographing. She said it was at a place where coal had been unloaded from barges at an inn. Horses were kept in the stables at the inn which the wall could have been part of.

Tomorrow I am off to Luton to take part in a radio show for BBC 3 Counties radio. I'll blog about that later in the week.