Just eating and drinking

coffee in the Lime Lounge

breakfast in mum's garden

Sunday July 21st.

We've been here 5 days now and have had 3 days of heat-wave and 2 cooler ones. 
The first couple of days we spent organising stuff.  We bought a car and have it in a garage as it needed a couple of things doing.  Also got a new sim card for our phone and various other things like that.  It was so hot that we spent quite a bit of time just lounging around in the garden.

On Friday we drove out to a nearby village, West Hallam, that had a scarecrow festival.  They are quite common here in the summer apparently but I don't know when they started, sometime in the last couple of decades.  We had a great pub lunch and a wander around looking at the various creations.  All very English.

Yesterday we went to Derbyshire (the next county to Nottinghamshire) but very different in scenery.  Derbyshire has lots of stone buildings whereas Nottinghamshire has brick ones.  Derbyshire has lots of moorland and it's fields are bordered with stone walls where we have hedges.  It was a greyish day so we didn't take many photos.  We went to a village called Bakewell which is famous for inventing the Bakewell Tart and the Bakewell Pudding (they obviously bake well there!?)  We have eaten before at both the claimants to be the 'original' Bakewell pudding shop so tried the Lime Lounge where to my surprise they had excellent coffees, flat white and cappuccino.

Today, another greyish day, Malcolm and I went for a walk in the morning.  we had only been gone about 20 mins when we stopped for a coffee at a café in a garden centre that was just off the footpath.  The walk went through woodland and fields and along the canal side.  When we got home 3 hours later we felt like we deserved lunch so took mum out to a nice place we all know.  Malcolm was going to have salad until he saw he could get a Sunday roast lunch with dessert from the 'Golden Years' menu at a cheaper price!

 

This is our car