The weather is just breaking as I write this post. Just in time since water levels in the Ouseburn are very low and the grass hereabouts looks like the same colour as cardboard boxes.
Love to complain, don't we? But our recent welcome weather has been brilliant for a longish spell that suggests we will have some sort of a Summer this year.
The Battlefield, my blog's name for the City Stadium, has never seemed more mature and welcoming a green space as could be. It's been wonderful to witness the slow growing appreciation of this green patch overlooking the Lower Ouseburn, as strollers, commuters on foot or wheels, sun worshippers and picnic groups have used its identity as a park in all but name. It seems a game ago when the existence of this piece of scrubby ground was being eyed up by potential 'owners' for their own use. The whole of the district has gained from it. Across Shieldfield there is a spirit of revival and possibility that has come in step with the re-generation of this precious piece of urban green space.
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