Starting a staycation
A staycation! So Lorraine and I jumped in the car and zoomed north to South Littleton on the edge of the Cotswolds, to see Sue and John. We came armed with bottles of wine, but it turned out that Sue and John decided to have had a booze free year, both demonstrating wills of iron and so on. I am not sure how I would have coped this year without the judicious application of a little booze. Good to see Sue and John again. John had a recent spell in hospital but had been released back into the wild, and put on a few medications and sick leave. He has been under huge pressure at work, but seems in good spirits. Also met their lively little long haired Jack Russell called Whiskey, which is still very much a puppy. Lorraine cooing soppily over it, and Sue slipping on its sports bra for a saunter over the fields in the heat. We walked across what John said were ancient ridge and furrow fields, which gave the ground a corrugated look, and was done to increase surface area and improv...