Lovely day in Salisbury

I met my friend P who lives in Bournemouth (and her little dog) . An easy bus journey for her, and a good train trip for me.  We potterered about in the city for a while, bought ourselves a picnic lunch and headed north on the riverside path beside the river Avon (a different one to ‘mine’ in Bristol) towards old Sarum (the site, on a hill, of the original Salisbury). There was so much chatting, sitting on benches, identifying flowers and trees, and watching for birds that we didn’t walk that far - just about two miles there and two back along the same pathway. When you walk with a dog, I have discovered, you get chatting with almost all the other people with dogs, which is friendly and often interesting, but means you don’t proceed very far:-)
The main blip is a place I passed on my way from the station to the centre. The stone structure is one of four market crosses - this was the Poultry Cross - built in 1335.  The place to the left looks a couple of hundred years younger.  It’s so nice to see these really old parts left alone. I’ve a feeling Salisbury wasn’t much of a Blitz target as it’s got a lot of very old structures left. 
The first extra is a place where we stood for ages watching pied wagtails skimming along the waters surface catching flies, with their familiar bobbing flight.  So interesting - I usually see them exploring the pavement for food around the corner near the main road. A woman walking her dogs said she’s seen otters at this spot before.  The second is just a mural which appealed to me very much as I walked past it.