For today's exercise we went to Harlow Town Park, which probably sounds less pleasant than it is - a very large and quite hilly open green space with a lot of variety of trees and plants including a fine "Newfoundland Garden". Harlow is a schizophrenic sort of place with a variety of personalities from Harlow Old Town through to the grid-like roads and modernist monstrosities of the New Town, but the Park is something of a jewel in the middle of it all. Most of it was quiet today but there were a few too many people for comfort sitting around the cafe and bandstand area - very few face-masks to be seen and a lot of people paying minimal attention to "social distancing", although most of those we met on the paths were fine about giving us plenty of space - probably my walker helps with that.
On the way back, the splendid sight of village cricket on the green at Hatfield Heath. I didn't have a chance to count, but it looked like a lot more than thirteen players and a couple of umpires on the field - I think they must have been playing more that 11 a side to let as many players as possible get involved now that the game is on again, and who could argue with that?
(Stock photo found online - not today!)
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