Old friends

Spent the best part of the day driving south, the customary Friday crawl past Manchester and later past Birmingham.

We stopped off in Stroud for the night; it was so nice to see our old friends R & D and to have a meal and a glass or two of wine with them, along with much blether. Some of it was sad and serious news but it was nicely leavened with music and scurrilous gossip. (And it appears that I omitted to take a photo at all until quite late on in the day...)