When it all just feels a bit too much - too loud, too hot, too rushed, too scary - it helps to return to the comfort and quiet of trees. Your worries might not disappear altogether, but for a moment or two you can forget they exist, when your mind is calmed by the whisper of water and the breeze in the leaves.

This little path through the woods crosses the trickle of a brook, which is one of two streams, the other being small brook, that combine to form the River.