Thank the Lord for Valium and the National Health Service. My back is much better and we went exploring again yesterday. We drove fifty miles into the Thames Valley to a charming little village called Dorchester on Thames. This village is one of those ancient 
old places with a winding main street and lots of very old cottages with walls that threaten to tumble into the streets. Even the local Co-Op supermarket has ceilings just inches over your head and a doorway that you have to duck your head to get through. The place was once an important Roman centre and grew up around an ancient abbey when this was part of the old region of Wessex. The Anglo Saxon bishop St Birinus, died here in 634AD. The age and history of these places still blows me away. We 
spent some time in the Abbey church, looking at the tombs of medieval knights and abbots, before enjoying a delightful afternoon tea in the abbey tea rooms. We joined a lot of other visitors around a big table laden with cakes and scones, cream and jam provided by the church ladies. Very English and very quaint!
Tomorrow we are off to London for my birthday dinner. At Claridges would you believe!
old places with a winding main street and lots of very old cottages with walls that threaten to tumble into the streets. Even the local Co-Op supermarket has ceilings just inches over your head and a doorway that you have to duck your head to get through. The place was once an important Roman centre and grew up around an ancient abbey when this was part of the old region of Wessex. The Anglo Saxon bishop St Birinus, died here in 634AD. The age and history of these places still blows me away. We 
spent some time in the Abbey church, looking at the tombs of medieval knights and abbots, before enjoying a delightful afternoon tea in the abbey tea rooms. We joined a lot of other visitors around a big table laden with cakes and scones, cream and jam provided by the church ladies. Very English and very quaint!Tomorrow we are off to London for my birthday dinner. At Claridges would you believe!
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