If we ignore the hour between three and four o’clock when I was wide awake uploading photos and writing diary I had a rather good sleep. We all had something of a lie-in this morning, and Karl cooked a very good Full English breakfast. Seeing a glorious morning I laid the table on the patio in readiness… then hurriedly moved everything inside as the rain started.
We had a good bit of brekkie on the kitchen table, then had
a rather lazy morning peering out of the window waiting for the rain to stop. When
it stopped we put on our boots, went outside… and seeing the downpour that had
started went back inside again.
We set off on our little walk an hour later.
The plan was to wander down the lane from the cottage, do a circular walk of the nearby common and walk back to base. And that was what we did. We wandered down a quiet country lane, seeing a deer as we went. As we walked Bailey set off after a pheasant (I wish she wouldn’t), and on a couple of occasions we all hid under a tree waiting for the rain to pass.
With our walk walked we went back to base, and what had
been a rather dull and overcast early afternoon gave way to blue skies and
bright sunshine. We spent the afternoon playing cornhole and quoits and chewing
dog toys and drinking beer in the sunshine. Five minutes after the preparations
for dinner were started we all ran inside as the heavens opened with probably
the heaviest downpour of the day (and that was up against some pretty stiff
competition).
The stout was opened (6.5% - oh yus!) and we had a very good curry. The evening got progressively more vague as it went on (I wonder why) but I can distinctly remember watching an episode of “Benidorm”, an episode of “The Weakest Link” and watching bats in between the rain.
I took a few photos today… in between (and during) the showers.
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