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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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.
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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