…….is still a wondrous affair. After the barrenness of winter the rapid, verdant growth always comes as a surprise and the beauty of it is breathtaking. It’s particularly wonderful to have family visiting from NZ and the pleasure of showing them around the local sites and pubs makes it even more special for us.
Our local “the Duck” is a great place for a pint at the end of the day. Something we only do when we have visitors to give us the excuse. Like most pubs in England, it is really dog and child friendly and so Molly and Pippa had a righteous old time while we sampled our pints. It’s lovely to be able to sit and enjoying these things al fresco instead of huddling in front of a roaring fire.
Avebury is a very ancient stone circle, a World Heritage site, not as well known as Stonehenge, but rather more accessible. It is one of our favourite places to take visitors. Yesterday was May Day and this weekend is also a Bank Holiday weekend. We arrived at Avebury and found the pagans were camping there. Pagans from all over gather there to booze at the local pubs and then proceed to parade around the site in obscure rituals, arriving back at the pub to meet up with long lost ‘pagan friends’ have some refreshment, then undertake more rituals amongst the stones. It was colourful and interesting……some pagans looked rather more “pagan” than others, some decidedly dodgy! The group in the photograph were honouring some goddess and were quite pretty. We thought it prudent to leave before the ‘after dark’ rituals began!!
We decided to have our picnic on one of the many white chalk horses that dot the hillsides around the Wiltshire area, but a family of real horses decided to join us! Not being absolutely certain that their big fluffy hoofs were friendly we decided to have our picnic on the other side of the fences, much to Molly’s chagrin. She vociferously demanded a “ride on the little one”.
Thanks to the abatement of the Icelandic eruptions we are now on our way to Cyprus. Delayed gratification makes it all the more appreciated………..wish you were here xxxxx
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