Yesterday my friend and I had lunch at the Swettenham Arms followed by a pleasant stroll round The Quinta arboretum. We had fun watching 'fashion shows' as weddings were taking place both in the Church and the pub. The lavendar field is used a a backdrop for the photographs. Today it was in it's purple glory and heavenly fragrance. We were amused to see that the plastic pathways between the plants were being used as tramways for the young children to run up and down (makes a change from the dance floor!).
A few weeks earlier and after what seemed like an eternity of rain, I had a morning walk from Brereton Heath Park car park along the Swettenham bridleway - a very favourite walk of mine.
It was comforting to feel the warmth of the sun as I dropped down to what must be the best bit of the lower River Dane valley as it meanders across the Cheshire plain. I've introduced many of my walking friends to this area but this day I was solo enjoying my own thoughts.
My mid morning hot chocolate was taken on a nice seat in the secluded churchyard, where one gravestone has always intrigued me -
Tim Barton
Beloved and Wayward Son of
Brenda and Jim
Died 30 June 2001
Aged 51 years
Also Brenda died 2007
Aged 89 years
This day the lavender field was humming with thousands of bees.
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