We wuz lost.

Heptonstall main street. Sorry about the quality, most of today's were shot through the windscreen, or whatever them furriners call the front bit of glass in a car: including "Curry Out" & "Santa's Pizzas"

It was intended to visit "Slack Top" Alpine Nursery.
Just over 100mls, under two hours. It felt more like 200mls and over 3 hrs.

We changed from "TOMTOM"© to Garmin© recently and I have yet to make a full conversion.
For instance ... I have have absolutely no problem with using, say, Google Earth and finding a place is at 54˚4'30''N and 2˚46'25" W.
ENTER GARMIN stage left. I now have to tell it something like N53˚45.245': W002˚20.169'. HOW the great grey green greasy Limpopo do you convert minutes and seconds into decimal minutes in a car, in your head??

Worser and worser ... The map was in the wagon. In consequence we kinda spiralled in on the place via half of Yorkshire and a chunk of Lancashire.

That said, if we hadn't been lost we wouldn't have discovered Heptonstall. This is a blurry shot of the main street, which is vastly steeper than it appears. Gaffer tells me that the arch just disappearing on the left contained an old fashioned village pump. I wonder if it works.
They have a tea-room, a couple of pubs and a post office, at least. There was a sign to the effect that parking was restricted and visitors should follow the signs to the car-park. As we were only passing through, we didn't. At home I visited the place using Google Earth. Visitors' parking is at "Heptonstall Social and bowling club." an unsurfaced few square yards containing two cars, a Transit van and a "Pennine" trailer-tent at the time it was googled.

It was well worth the visit to Slack Top however we rescued at least 3 different Ramondas and, possibly, the smallest Daffodil in captivity.

"They" told us, recently, that Summer would happen tomorrow and last until Tea-time. We had ours today and it lasted until mid afternoon, rained all the way home and the rain gauge still registers about 0.5mm in the last couple of weeks. Let's see what tomorrow's like.

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