FreeSpirit : It sometimes pays to have a large vehicle

Saturday 17 February 2018

It sometimes pays to have a large vehicle

Ah now...about them noisy neighbours last night. Well, they were as good as gold and hardly a baaaa amongst them. But in the cattle shed, not 10 meters from us, was this cow that kept up a mooing throughout the night. Now, country sounds I love and sleep really isn't a problem because of it...usually...but this beast sounded distressed and I wondered if her calf had been taken from her. Farmers do that for our benefit, we like our milk products. The removed calves, instead of suckling on mum for 9 months, are fed on a substitute instead. This is all speculation I might add as we never got to see the farmer to ask.

Anyway, this morning was grey, cold, misty and rain was in the air. Ian emptied loo and got rid of rubbish and found the drinking water tap by the bins. A bit too far for the hose to reach so The Beast had to be turned around first. Then we discovered that this was the slowest filling tap we had encountered so far as 20 minutes went by before the tank was full. So we never left the farm until nearly 11 am. Our destination today was the NT Lyme Park and House in Lyme. This took us past a well known part of the canal..well known for us that is...and I wonder if anyone else recognised it..

The rain and grey conditions cleared by the time we arrived but because it was gone midday, the car park was almost full. This was one time when we were glad of having the Motorhome because a coned off area had been set aside for the larger vehicle. The cones were removed by the attendants and we were waved in...how good was that! And another bonus. Instead of paying for the car park (£12) and the entry to the house and gardens (£11) as NT members it was all free. There are loads of great walks around the estate but we didn't have time to do any of them, Heres hoping the weather stays okay for tomorrow as we may well go back.