GORSE IS IN FLOWER on Sharlston Common. The country saying is 'when furze is out of flower, kissing's out of favour'. I'm told that 'whin', a country name for Gorse, is a part of a number of the local place names.
Two Mistle Thrushes perch on roof top aerials on houses across the road.Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail;'richard@daelnet.co.uk'
