Last night we noticed a large BMW in the parking lot, in front of the BMW was the remains of a stone wall. Hanging around the BMW were an elderly couple (beyond my age!) and a collection of walking sticks. My first assumption ws that the said BMW had an argument with said wall. However this seemed unlikely as at the front of each parking spot was one of those long concrete beams to stop forward motion. Puzzling, until I looked closer, the concrete beam ws about 2 inches shorter than the distance between the inside of the front wheels! Amazingly there was very little obvious damage to the BMW.
This morning I avoided the temptation of the full English and went for poached eggs and toast (and maybe a sausage). I am beginning to live in fear of the scales when we get home.
Today Lyn had planned a circular tour of the local area. It may be boring for you, but we are happy driving around looking at the scenery rather than stopping off in towns and museums. Lyn was a little worried as this tour came from the AA Book od the Road, 1978 edition!
Many decades ago I was perfectly happy bombing around the countryside and country lanes at the legal speed limit (or more!). At the start of this trip even half the speed limit was enough to give me white knuckles. Slowly the confidence has returned and I’m up to about 80%. Below are a few shots of the roads, they are about one and a half times the width of car in the wide places, narrower places can have the hedges on withe side brushing the car. There are “passing places” every few hundred yards. Passing places often being defined as worn down hedgerow either side of the road where a car can squeeze into. Below may look like driveways to peoples houses, they are not, they are two way roads!
As we are in the Cotswolds, which is a range of hills, we had some amazing views across valleys, unfortunately I find these views are not well reproduced in photos (I need lessons!!)
At one place we stopped we found a flock of sheep just sleeping in the field. They were totally oblivious to us humans.
We also passed an old Abbey, built around 1248, so we stopped for a few pictures.
The oldest gravestone we could decipher was from 1762
Of course every Abbey needs a Manor House
And every Manor House needs a (green) horse and carriage.
We had lunch in a village pub and then then went off in search of the Cotswolds Falconry where there were a number of birds of prey. I won’t bore you with lots of bird pictures, mainly because it’s beer o’clock!
You’ve got to love the village names around here, we’re in Lower Slaughter, so of course there has to be…….
Collectively known as the Slaughters.