We have been bust with so many different projects including gardening for others and sorting out the utility room, decorated and subject to a clearout, that fitting leisure activities in has been difficult. However, we went out to Blandford last Friday and enjoyed a walk along the river. It was a little short but nevertheless it was of interest with plenty of ducks and a couple of little egret on show. The town itself is small but there were several unusual shops, especially a bookshop taking you up three stories via a steep wooden staircase. The books were incredible and there were many clocks and other objects steeped in history.
From there we went to a nearby garden centre where we managed to get a bird bath for the front garden and, like the bookshop, it was an idiosyncratic place, the shop stretching out into unseen rooms, sucking you further inside. Slightly creepy in fact, as was the higgeldy-piggeldy nature of the nursery of plants. An amazing place which managed to entrance and confuse at the same time.
On the way back we walked the woodland trail at Kingston Lacy before finishing at Stewarts garden centre for soup and a browse.
We've had Joseph's birthday, his seventh, over the weekend, the highlight of which was the Harry Potter themed picnic at Moors Valley. I ran to and back from the party, 10.3 miles, and was shattered afterwards. The children had a great time and Bridie had done a fantastic job in making wands and small 'familiars' for them all. Quite a day to follow their trip to Harry Potter studios the previous day when I had watched football all day!
One more photo is of a garden by the woods down the road where two deer posed for me as I took Maisie for a morning walk. Lovely.
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