Mud and sparkle.

Here we have the mixing of two water sources.

The muddy one comes from the drain off of fields just to the north of the village and is emerging from a culvert which runs under Coffee Pot Wood and into the river.

The river is the River Alne, which passes the end of our garden in another hundred metres.

Alne is derived from the Celtic word Alwine meaning bright or clear. It rises to the north of Wootton Wawen about ten miles from us.

During periods of heavy or continuous rain the contents of the culvert change the sparkling water of the Alne from one which I would drink without thought into a soup I wouldn't swim in.