Layer Marney Cup From Audley End

What a beautiful day for the Layer Marney Cup run. I collected my daughter in the TR4, we filled up with petrol at a designated garage and she drove to Audley End house where we parked on their cricket pitch. My image shows just some of the cars that took part. Many more arrived after I took the pic.

We set off for the Colne Valley Steam Railway and were chatting and not concentrating on the tulip route book, missed a turning and got hopelessly lost. In the end we entered our destination into the SatNav which took us in circles. We drove through Finchingfield three times. A kind man driving a Triumph Stag, who was nothing to do with the rally, took pity on us and lead us to the railway. We had a nice lunch in a Pullman carriage reserved for the Cup entrants.

All the cars were weighed at a weighbridge in a quarry, we topped up with fuel and the calculations of how much fuel we had used were made. No prizes for us for fuel economy but our new friend in his Honda S2000 came second in his class.

We had a nice cream tea back at Layer Marney Tower. As Shiela the organiser said, it was a very jolly day. The Essex countryside was so beautiful in the sunshine. Lovely to spend the day with my daughter doing what we like best - playing cars and chatting with petrolheads.

Today's poem is Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47646/grief-56d2283e927df

EBB's beloved brother drowned whilst sailing. His body was washed up on shore nearly a month later. At first, stricken with grief, she could no longer read or write but later wrote the above.