Elevenses on Tuesday in Horseheath, Cambs, with cousin John Rex, Followed by lunch at The Dog & Doublet, a meander around Saffron Walden, a visit to 15th century Priory barn in Widdington, courtesy of English Heritage & a tootle around the byways of rural Essex.
This was excellent & could only have been improved by a closer reading of the handbook to note that the barn was only open for internal inspection on Sat & Sun.
Problems only arose on the way home; I coped admirably with the first long diversion off the A14, following yellow circles.
I did the same at diversion 2 & found myself going down the A14 in the wrong direction!
Retracing my "steps" I diverted again, took the only alternative & got lost.
It was dark & raining hard; the rest of the world were heading home & I didn't even know where I was. Radio 4 could offer only thoughts on puberty followed by duff toys from China.
At least this was incentive enough to find out how to work the CD player & sing along with Rod Stewart, to keep my spirits up.
As all seemed lost I saw a sign to Lutterworth (Dad went everywhere via Lutterworth, or so it seemed)
He must have been looking over me.
Home via M1, M69,M6, in 3 hours instead of the usual <2>
This was excellent & could only have been improved by a closer reading of the handbook to note that the barn was only open for internal inspection on Sat & Sun.
Problems only arose on the way home; I coped admirably with the first long diversion off the A14, following yellow circles.
I did the same at diversion 2 & found myself going down the A14 in the wrong direction!
Retracing my "steps" I diverted again, took the only alternative & got lost.
It was dark & raining hard; the rest of the world were heading home & I didn't even know where I was. Radio 4 could offer only thoughts on puberty followed by duff toys from China.
At least this was incentive enough to find out how to work the CD player & sing along with Rod Stewart, to keep my spirits up.
As all seemed lost I saw a sign to Lutterworth (Dad went everywhere via Lutterworth, or so it seemed)
He must have been looking over me.
Home via M1, M69,M6, in 3 hours instead of the usual <2>
