There's something in my boots!

I took today off, as about 20 of us (mainly “ladies”) from our village visited Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland. The gardens were created by Geoff Hamilton for BBC Gardeners' World, and is Britain's largest collection of individually designed gardens.

We had a really lovely day, ambling from one section of the garden to the next, and then ambling of to the tea rooms for our lunch and a weeny bottle of wine each.

These boots were in the "Children's Garden" and had been left outside a little mud hut that had a beautiful "living roof", as though the owner would shortly come out and try to put them on, but find they were full of plants.

The driver was a little unsure of the route to get there, so we went the sat-nav scenic way through lots of tiny villages, that were built before coaches (or indeed motorised vehicles) were invented. Although there were only about 20 of us, for one reason or another we finished up travelling in a 40-seater coach, which wasn’t the easiest of things to try and manoeuvre round some of the tight bends with overhanging buildings that were several hundred years old.

One of our ladies came to the rescue and went up the front of the bus to have a word in his ear and to show him the road map. We came back a different way needless to say!