The Abbey Grounds are a short distance from our house. We often walk through them on the way to somewhere else. Today we made them our walk.

The furthest point we got to was the wooden bridge to Barton Fields. We did not cross that bridge or cross the weir. Instead we meandered back over the grass.

The Abbey Grounds had a nine hole pitch and put course until four years ago. The felt tee areas are still partly in place, and the slope of some of the bunkers, but the bunkers and greens have the same length grass as everywhere else. It is all rough now.

The trees are looking very good. Some in blossom.

Others coming into leaf .

Wild flowers are important now that it is not a golf course. Stars of Bethlehem were growing in one place.

Walking back along Abbey Close we passed two PCSOs (Police Community Support Officers) on bikes, and a police car – a reminder that we are permitted walks for exercise during the lockdown. There were not the groups of young people, groups of families, or groups doing exercise, you might normally expect to see on such a sunny day.