Glorious Gloucestershire!

Well, I have to say today and yesterday were the first time that I've been warm in about three weeks! It really does feel like Summer has arrived. And I can't think of a prettier place than Gloucestershire in Summer. Warm sun (it was just t-shirts at 8am!!!........and actually achieved that hard earned result of a farmer's tan by the end of the day!), the heady scent of wild flowers and pretty houses make it a very nice place indeed. Off to ride Scooby again with Jayne and then it was over to Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds. An old favourite and so close to where I was, that I couldn't resist a visit. In these parts you feel compelled to find big shady tree and sit there with a stack of Jane Austen novels and be transported back into an other time of big dresses, estate houses and Summer picnics with Mr Darcy. Swoon. Oh, the good and genteel folk of Gloucester! Lots of very friendly Japanese tourists too, falling over themselves to say "hello" to you. Strange. It does feel like you've been transported back in time with the little, organic looking stone houses that seem to have just sprouted out of the ground of their own accord. The fields at this time are picture postcard too....all full of yellow rape and little lambs.

Next it was back on the road and off to Oxford to catch up with Alasdair. :-)

XXX