Lowick,Northamptonshire There is now a scatter of midland vineyards that stretches north, even into YorkshireThe county awakes to its first snow textured landscape of the winter. A scant covering, and on unfrozen soil,but enough for the children to tumble out into snowballs, snowman building and careering down north facing slopes on a variety of contraptions; that is until they rub the snow away.
Harper’s Brook is a meaningful tributary of the Nene, and winding south-east from Corby,down a shallow valley, past Brigstock, or Sudborough and Lowick,before jagging north and joining the Nene at Aldwincle. Between Sudborough and Lowick the valley floor is mostly still grazing land. One field contains a couple of dozen young Suffolk rams, thick set, or black legs and head,and characteristically long and droopy black ears. They loaf approximately in little squads, watching us with mock disinterest.
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Source: theguardian.com