Bramble Brook

Bramble Brook runs through the piece of open ground next to my Mum's house. It's always been quite wild and overgrown, with nettles all along the bank. Over the years, Mum has quietly annexed a strip of ground next to the garage and grows her rhubarb and gooseberries there.

It was a great adventure playground for me and my brother when we were growing up in Mickleover; the area around was much less built up and there were open fields not far behind our house. One of our favourite exploits was to dare each other to wade through the culvert where the brook ran under the road - now there's a grill over the opening. Much safer, but not nearly as exciting.