It was time to revisit my tree on the lane next to Christ Church.
Now I think it might be a horse chestnut.
I managed to dodge the heavy showers that had been falling on and off all day, but there was plenty of evidence of them. The air had an earthy smell and looking back towards Christchurch Lane from the A51 end, I noticed the reflection of the trees in the puddles. I’m not sure whether the onion ring crisp spillage adds to or detracts from the scene.
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Soggy Crisps
I bet that the crisps were an after school snack, dropped in the haste to get get home before the next shower, but I wonder how these flowers came to be here? From the nearby churchyard perhaps?
Discarded flowers
It was good to see some new arrivals along the lane.
This reminds me. How are those bluebells in Leomansley Woods coming along?
Lichfield Lore 
Your tree is a horsechestnut it must have had a hard life they have smooth grey
bark when the size of your tree ,It must be in poor soil and suffered in the past
it should buck up now it has you looking out for it .
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I just couldn’t remember any conkers up there last Autumn? Maybe they’d all been snaffled up by the kids before I got there!
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The common name “horse-chestnut” (often unhyphenated) is reported as having originated from the erroneous belief that the tree was a kind of chestnut (though in fact only distantly related), together with the observation that eating the fruit cured horses of chest complaints. `,;”
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