Another of the lost weekends from last month. A windswept drizzly day, grey skies, heading to Bermondsey to meet the Borough Belles WI, discuss plans for the Big Feastival. Chatting over hot chocolates in the back of a bookshop, finding out that one of them is a blog reader (I'm very chuffed). Heading to Stratford-Upon-Avon to visit my grandma (Hi Nana!)(she now reads this blog via a very kind friend and neighbour of hers who prints it out for her), catching up over boxes of Thornton's chocolate and cups of tea. On Sunday, walking with Dad by the river, clouds threatening rain. The newly refurbished theatre, impressive, a bookshop on a barge, a barge with my name. Swans, dragon boat racing. A churchyard with ancient trees and mossy tombstones. A ferry across the river, a brass-rubbing centre. 
"Chatting over hot chocolates in the back of a bookshop"? Sigh. Sounds lovely...
ReplyDeleteOh my. a boat bookshop. oh my.
ReplyDeleteAlso, your Nana (I say Nana too do people tell you it's weird?)reading a printed version of your blog is both sweet and wicked cool.
That's so sweet your nana reads your blog as a printed out version. My nan has no clue how to use the internet, maybe i should show my blog next time she visits :)
ReplyDeleteThat photo of the swans is stunning!
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so i'm finding your blog to be a very good little travel guide for me. i'll be in the uk for the rest of the summer for some graduate studies work, and i need all the help i can get to find lovely things to do in my spare time.
ReplyDeleteI too have a photo of a canal boat named Rebecca tucked away somewhere :) It's not the same one though!
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