Work Perk of the week: the great outdoors

a tiny handful of sweet wild strawberries,

blackberries gathered at Ditchford Far Hill

the refreshing scent of lavender, everywhere

the rose garden at Northwick Park

the stream at Blockley,

tiny fish flitting and so tempting to paddle

the view across to Barton on the Heath,

with the mist haze in the distance

a pair of buzzards circling down the Evenlode road

a young hare on the drive to Upper Rye farm,

and, once, a badger.