A Boxing Day Walk

A Boxing Day Walk, and how we all needed one after the excesses of yesterday. Philippa and mark kindly invited me to lunch at the Fairmaile Pub (Don't ever go there... insipid food and rude staff.. it was only saved by the fact that the G&T was OK) and then for a walk at Claremont Gardens a National Trust Site. We did not get there until mid-afternoon and the sun was already sinking fast. It is a lovely victorian style garden, around a small lake. There were a few photos, but owing to the quality of the light, unless they were actually of the sky they looked pretty gloomy!

Down at the lake the geese were being savagely bullied by some black swans... this one was sent packing just for looking at them a bit funny!

Now I know that I am very ignorant at times, but I really thought that these were rooks nests.. or well some birds' nests. However I was totally wrong, and actually this photo is surprisingly seasonal. This was misletoe growing copiously in the trees. Do you think they hadn't realised that they needed it yesterday? I would have indulged in a spot of kissing under the mistletoe trees but there was only my sister on offer, and somehow it didn't seem a very attractive thought!

The last view of the trees from the lake . . . . Then as it was nearly dark we went our seperate ways back to an evening of Morecambe and Wise (or was that 20 years ago???)