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We stayed an extra night in Clough Jordan, as we were so thoroughly enjoying almost living in our house and hanging out with so many very lovely people (and nosing around the new house builds). Also the offer of dinner at Bruce & Morags is not to be turned down lightly, he grows wonderful food and knows how to cook it simply and deliciously. We were treated to vegetable soup, home made pasta and a bowl of devine peppery salad leaves from the polytunnel - it felt like a mid summer feast, yet was mostly grown locally. Clough Jordan has a community supported farm scheme that means members share the success and failures of the crops. We get our farmer to grow what we want and how we want it > organically in our case and we all get a share of the crop. If it's a good crop, all the more for us and if not, the farmer is not out of pocket. We get food, milk, eggs and meat that has barely a food mile on it.

This is the very abandoned Bally Mackey protestant church a few miles outside CJ. There is such a feel of England about this church with its ancient huge Yew trees and graveyard lay out, although the tower had a feel of somewhere else about it....Repunzel ??

The roof was long gone and a variety of Holly trees appeared to be making the most of having the place to themselves. I like the red church door, very cardinal.