Saturday 23rd September 2023

Saturday: and with lots of pictures of churches left to edit and post, coupled with the orchid season over for another year, there was little to do.

Jools even had gone to Tesco Friday evening, so we didn't even have to get up early.

I cooked something for Jools to have for lunch over the time I would be away, so that used up some of the saved time from not going shopping.

So, we went for a walk, but recent heavy rains made most tracks impassable, so just a walk over the fields to Fleet House and back, as I looked for Clouded Yellows again, but none seen.

This is a view where the track to The Dip, Norway Drove branched right, and the main track heads down round the corner to the left to the farm.

Back over the fields where at Red Admiral was feeding on Ivy just as the path opened out, so I snapped that. Walking back home keeping an eye out for Clouded Yellows still, but none seen.

Back home for half an hour, before we drove over to Folkestone as we had been invited out for lunch!

Out Flickr-friend, Mary, had invited us to her house in Cheriton, so we drove over, stopping to get a bouquet from a florists, and then the usual issue where she lives: finding somewhere to park on the narrow streets.

Once we had, we walked to her house, rang the bell and she invited us in.

We ate a light three course meal and talked all the time, all very pleasant and the time slipped by.

We left at three so Jools could go swimming once the tide turned, but I stayed home to listen to the football.

Oh yes, the football. Even though we're suffering a bit of an injury crisis, I don't anyone though Plymouth would hoop us 6-2. And by all accounts, City were as bad as the score suggests. Sigh.