We packed up and left
this morning earlier than planned; such is our efficiency. Our route via the
M42, then the A42, up past Tamworth toward Nottingham, was without event,
simply joining the hundreds of trucks heading in the same direction, a distance
of about fifty miles. The road passed through the rolling countryside of
Warwickshire, then on up into Leistershire, the road lined with ragwort and
rubbish, the grain crops spied through the hedgerows sandy coloured and begging
harvest. Large round hay bales were sometimes seen lying scattered across shorn
fields, also patiently waiting collection and storage.
We pulled into the
Donington Park motorway service centre, taking its name from the motor racing
circuit close by. There, parking between rows of big trucks and trailers, we
sat over morning coffee, the daily newspaper followed by lunch before making
our way south west to our little farmlet camp here on the edge of the village
of Sutton Bonington.
While the sun had been
just as fierce as yesterday, when heat waves were reported as sweeping the
British Isles, there was a pleasant breeze about, and the day was much more
comfortable. Late in the afternoon, burning the bottom of the stew
whilst pouring over maps and travel guides with my attentive husband, a wild
storm swept over us, the wind rocking the van and the rain causing a mini flood
in the yard. But as I type this, the day has returned to its pre-storm state,
although the sun is now setting beyond the rear field grazed by a small mob of
sheep.
We look forward to
heading into Nottingham tomorrow and putting some shape into our plans for the
next week. I fear we are going to run out of days here, so what’s new?
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