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Thursday July 24th
Today has been a hot day.
Just let that sink in for a moment.
Today has been a hot day.
It’s actually been the hottest day of the year here, although hardly a scorcher by our standards. Around 27 or 28 degrees!
We went to the gym this morning and this afternoon took a drive to the Cotswold village of Bibury.
This is a very old and very picturesque village with a history going back to the Iron Age. Its church of St Mary is 12th
century but there have been remnants of A
nglo Saxon gravestones found in the graveyard.
The village’s economy back in the 1700’s was based on the production of cloth which they used to spread out on “The Rack Island” a field between the Colne River and the mill stream.
Today of course a lot of its income is from tourism, the row of lovely old
weavers’ cottages said to be the most photographed cottages in England. After a quiet stroll in the sunshine, Barbara and I enjoyed the tradition cream tea of scones with jam and clotted cream. As I said to Barbara, it reminded me of “that last summer just before the war in ‘39. Celia was in the garden and I was mixing the Pimms......”
No! Sorry, that was Celia Johnson and Noel Coward in “In Which We Serve.”
This country is getting to me. It’s a good thing we’re coming home in October.
Today has been a hot day.
Just let that sink in for a moment.
Today has been a hot day.
It’s actually been the hottest day of the year here, although hardly a scorcher by our standards. Around 27 or 28 degrees!
We went to the gym this morning and this afternoon took a drive to the Cotswold village of Bibury.
This is a very old and very picturesque village with a history going back to the Iron Age. Its church of St Mary is 12th
century but there have been remnants of A
nglo Saxon gravestones found in the graveyard.The village’s economy back in the 1700’s was based on the production of cloth which they used to spread out on “The Rack Island” a field between the Colne River and the mill stream.
Today of course a lot of its income is from tourism, the row of lovely old
weavers’ cottages said to be the most photographed cottages in England. After a quiet stroll in the sunshine, Barbara and I enjoyed the tradition cream tea of scones with jam and clotted cream. As I said to Barbara, it reminded me of “that last summer just before the war in ‘39. Celia was in the garden and I was mixing the Pimms......”No! Sorry, that was Celia Johnson and Noel Coward in “In Which We Serve.”
This country is getting to me. It’s a good thing we’re coming home in October.
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