Fredagsmorgon!

Två pigga (?) själar, som förmodligen kände att det inte gick att ligga still i sängen längre, då det fanns en vägg att erövra ute i spåren, gav sig ut i arla morgon för att avverka några meter.

Jörgen Larsen var först ut kl. 05:35 med en runda på 5,4 km runt Hyllie och Emporia.

Därefter var det dags för Sofie Brandt att kl. 06:31 bege sig ut på en 4,9 km runda i Klågerup. Inte ens denna gång kunde hon plocka upp Magnus Ryberg på vägen 😉

För dessa prestationer kom det ett vykort med posten!

The small village of Heddon-on-the-Wall and its 1500 inhabitants is home to the longest surviving section of the wall that was built to its original width of 3m (9.8ft).
Known as the Broad Wall, this surviving unbroken section of the wall is 100m long. It is assumed that in order to save on resources and funds the construction of the wall was reduced in width quite early on to 2.5m (8.2ft) and sometimes even as narrow as 1.8m (5.9ft) wide.

At the turn of the 20th century, Heddon was largely a farming village until 1.2 million tonnes of coal reserves were discovered in the late 1950s. The Bays Leap opencast site emerged covering nearly 300 acres and remained in operation until 1965 when the area was restored and returned to farming.
The original Old Bays Leap farm was a very productive farm until it was bought out in 1957, along with Town House and Heddon Mill, to make way for coal mining. The Bays Leap Farm was rebuilt in 1966 and continues to exist today as a dairy farm and for raising cattle.

To Historic England’s delight, in March 2019, builders excavated a site for a new housing development and discovered a new section of the Wall which has since been excavated and preserved.
The nearby hedges and fields are home to a variety of birds that change with the seasons. In winter, listen for the greenfinch and chaffinch. Once spring rolls on, the skylarks sing and kestrels hover over their prey. By summer, the common whitethroat arrives to breed before moving on to the southern hemisphere for the winter.

Bay Leap poem by Alan Duggan 1958
(”The months rolled by and now we see the surplus in a heap. Towering high above the fields, the death of old Bays Leap.”)