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If you go down to Blean Woods today…

This month must be peak wood-admiration season. Given a single moment to visit a wood, most of us would choose to stroll a carpet of purple haze beneath a canopy of lime-green, just when the birds are at their busiest, singing their hearts out.

I wandered through Blean Woods near Canterbury shortly before the shimmering beauty of bluebell season, and became convinced that actually early spring is the greatest

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