A lovely piece of writing by Carol Donaldson in the Guardian.
The marshes are not an obvious beauty: it is a rough-edged love, full of derelict industry, broken barges, wide bays of mud; icy with blue light and shrill with redshanks’ calls in the winter, fields and scrub bubbling over with nightingales in the spring – and you never know if others will understand its appeal.
via Walk the North Kent Marshes – while the solitude lasts | Travel | The Guardian
Our marshes at Graveney and Nagden are heavily influenced by farming activity, yet still have the rough-edged majesty and appeal that Carol describes.
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