March 28 2006. Visit Sutton Cemetery to check some family history dates and pass near Prittle Brook several tree houses and associated tents termed "Camp Bling" by the people who have lived there through the winter protesting against a road widening plan destructive to mature trees. Less attention has been given to the destruction of trees along both railways to Southend to prevent leaves falling on the line and causing delays to trains. One wonders whether this will work unless large tracts of the woodland outside the railway company fences are removed as well, with the now removed smaller bushes no longer trapping the more distantly blown leaves. Much will depend on the prevailing southwest wind direction during the autumn rainstorms, and the type of trees (which stagger their leaf fall until January in many oaks) and whether the track is on an embankment or not. The distance which leaves move by normal winds, normally only to the east (along many tracks) or northeast, depends on the height of the tree and is roughly ten times the height of trees, which are often 30 m high and with bases above the tracks in woodland surviving on Essex sandy hills.