24/05/2026
🌞🌳🌞🌳🌞🌳 Up and out early this morning to beat the heat. With its wooded sections and grasslands. Benfield Valley is the perfect place for long morning walks before the heat rises. My boy and I mainly stuck to the woodland patches and took lots of water (he went through just over half a litre of water in an hour).
I chatted to of other folk with the same idea, all of us agreeing that tomorrow and Tuesday getting out earlier will be key to get our best friends safe (I managed to get us out for 6.30 today but tomorrow I’m thinking much earlier as it got too hot for him towards the end of the walk).
Spaces like Benfield are becoming even more crucial as our climate becomes increasingly unstable. The mosaic that all of the different habitats create serve to mitigate the worst effects such as heat and flooding as well as giving wildlife (and us!) a space to stay safe in the sun. This is just part of the reason we work so hard to preserve and defend it from planned developments.
If you and your canine companion/s get out early over the next week, we’d love to see your photos and share them here!
In the meantime, have a wonderful holiday and stay safe in the sun! 💛
Helen x
