Friday 20 June 2014

Another Wood

Stream in the woods behind Queen Victoria Hospital, near East Grinstead.  21 May 2014.
Stream in the woods behind Queen Victoria Hospital, near East Grinstead.  21 May 2014.
I took a friend for a minor surgery at a hospital near East Grinstead.  While it was being carried out, I walked around some woods that I had scoped out on the map, not far from the hospital.  At first I was clearly in a suburban wood, near houses and often finding the borders.  But then I moved further out and found a less civilised area.  This dark stream was well inside the wood.

Bridge in the woods behind Queen Victoria Hospital, near East Grinstead.  21 May 2014.
Bridge in the woods behind Queen Victoria Hospital, near East Grinstead.  21 May 2014.
I followed the stream along to find this bridge.  I had to climb over some fencing to get to the path, which suggests that I had entered private land somewhere earlier on.  Probably when I departed from this same path to explore off to one side.

Viaduct in the woods behind Queen Victoria Hospital, near East Grinstead.  21 May 2014.
Viaduct in the woods behind Queen Victoria Hospital, near East Grinstead.  21 May 2014.
Soon afterwards, the path passed under this massive Victorian viaduct.  I had crossed over this railway on a narrow road bridge half an hour earlier.  This is quite an imposing structure, and not something I would normally find deep in a wood!

Road sign near Holtye Road, near East Grinstead. 21 May 2014.
Road sign near Holtye Road, near East Grinstead. 21 May 2014.
Out of the wood, I walked along the roads to get back to the hospital.  This sign marked the return to a built-up area.  To me, this sign means "Thanks for having driven carefully for a while, you can stop now."  I have to think to work out that it is probably meant to suggest that I should now start to drive carefully.  Or possibly, continue to do so.  As I was on foot, it missed its mark either way.

1 comment:

  1. I think that folks who compose those Thank You notices fancy that they are most courteous. I suppose the intention is "Be a careful driver, please!". I was just listening to a radio program discussing telltale forms of lying, in this case meaning to mask the fact of problems with careless driving hereabouts.

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