I was busy photographing a buttercup meadow on the far side of the River Dickler in Little Rissington when I heard a noise and turned round to see a herd of curious young heifers running towards me. I could not retreat, as I was standing on the river bank, so I waved my hands to stop their inexorable advance. They halted momentarily, and then began to edge forward, and this is when I took a picture.