Today we walked in the company of the element water. This morning was the wettest walk we'd undertaken in the forest for a long time. The underlying geology of the New Forest means water isn't quickly absorbed, and the slowly drained ground easily becomes sodden. Ridley Plain is one of a chain of high plains which cut through the centre of the New Forest, even up here the surface was awash, water either flowing or standing. Where water was flowing, it was being drawn as if by magical force into Harvest Slade from every direction, through the bottom of the Slade an embryonic tributary Mill Lawn Brook forms and flows.
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