Saturday 8 August
Jane + Hilary
A beautiful day was forecast, and the sun shone brightly. There was a slight breeze in the morning keeping it cooler.
Lovely landscape when walking to Old St Chad's Church.
The path was surrounded by plenty of nettles - to catch Hilary's legs!
Fields of sweet corn
As we walked along the canal there were Red Admirals flying about in the lovely sunshine.
After we passed under the bridge we noticed a studio open sign. So we visited Buffy Robinson in her batik studio, upstairs in a C17th barn at the Wharf, Grindley Brook. She does beautiful batik work, her drawings are lovely. The elephant lampshade were really good. The studio is in Shropshire, but only just. We went over the bridge to look at the art in a shed, there were plenty of books and some art work.
We returned to the batik studio and sat on the bench and had lunch, it was in full sun so we got pretty hot.
Went back into Cheshire shortly after passing the pub.
The blindfolded horse.
Lots of thistles in the fields, many of them going to seed
Hilary had been talking about the lack of animals in the fields so we at last came to few fields with cows in them and one with a lot of sheep.
Small aeroplanes flying overhead
It was very warm in the afternoon, which made the last stretch a bit harder.
We stopped for ice cream on the way home, everybody else had the same idea. When I saw the queue I would happily have turned around and gone home especially as I hate queues! But Hilary was determined to have that ice cream so we joined the queue.
Cup of tea at Hilary's house
