Old Warrington Road

Nice walk after dumping stuff at the local tip. Amused by the tip feller's Halloween display of ghouls and skeletons! Nice to get rid of all the garden rubbish and stuff from Dave's house. We felt a lot lighter! The woods looked wonderful in their autumnal foliage. A few squirrels being frisky among the fallen leaves. Lots of dog walkers and their crazy hounds.

Walk Down The Canal Path

Plagued by ladybirds on our walk to the canal this afternoon. I had 5 on me at one time. Lots of spots. Hazel says these are the kind that are dangerous and go for the throat! I think she was kidding. Anyway....

...we could only snap this one as the others all flew off or vanished up sleeves and down trouser turn-ups etc.

So then we went over a bridge. We saw swans and some boats. One was full of sweets in cellophane bags. My teeth ached just looking at them!

Lovely sunny day - was like being back in July again!

Marbury Walk/ Picnic

Pleasant walk in Marbury Woods and along canal, garden centre etc. with old chums Stella and Brian. Nice picnic in their motor home in the car park. Weather was OK - not too cold. Lots of soggy leaves to walk through. Back to ours of dinner and more cake. Yum!

Archie's Birthday

Our little boy was 32 yestrday so much rejoicing and a lovely pub lunch over in Delamere. Later at home some delicious Guinness cake that Meriel made.

Early Morning Walk - October 3rd. 2024.

This mornings early walk down the Old Warrington Road after dropping off Archie and Meriel at the station. ( Off to Manchester and Marsden ) Saw some daft dogs and a dead rabbit and dead vole. A friendly twitcher daggling with clickers and cameras was recording the Cettis Warbler over by the Flashes. A rarity it seems. He was counting all the wood pigeons ( over 2,000 ) . Geese flying overhead honking away. Sunny for a change.

Blakemere Boot Sale

A few bargains at the last boot of the year including 6 films on DVD - Foreign Correspondent by Hitchcock - Nolan's first feature "Following" , Italian film -"Libero", Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive" etc. Also an A3 folder for my larger collages. Hazel found a bathroom mirror and a pad of multi-coloured crafting card.

Doreen Jones RIP

The very nice "Order of Service" for Doreen ( Hazel's Mom) with additional embroidered hankie ( Hazel sewn ) and hair pin and ephemera ( a crossword clue maybe?) that Doreen found essential in life. She will be greatly missed. (Archie and Meriel did the design and layout and printed it at home on our new Epson Ecotank printer ) Thanks to all for kind messages of support and who came along to say goodbye. It was a very moving eulogy and Hazel and Audrey's rendition of "Little Dog's Day" by Rupert Brooke will be remembered for a long time to come! Doreen would have approved of the tea and cakes (so many cakes!) that we enjoyed later in the day.