Tuesday trip
Another sunny day.. Drove to Shipley Country Park . Once a mining area . It was planted out and is now a pleasant place to walk .
Lovely and mild too.
Back to the car and decided to drive to Newstead Abbey. Luckily the route passed straight past the hotel as I'd left our packed lunch ( and Fletch's) in our room.
Normally we reach Newstead from a
different direction so I had to rely on our SatNav. . As a result we went via some very narrow lanes . It was quite a surprise when we arrived there as I'd no idea where we were going. ( I got out the A to Z map to go back ) I'm really not impressed with Garmin.
It was overcast but very mild.. We wandered round the Japanese garden . The Autumn colours are late this year, but is still a pleasant walk.
Back at the car we decided to have the Danish pastries that wed kept from breakfast. As I was feeding Fletch with his usual food ( no pastries for him) I turned round and there were 3 peacocks right behind me. They were very tame and obviously used to scrounging off the visitors.
They have such beautiful plumage. No chance of a wonderful tail display as they appeared to have either lost their feathers or they have been removed.
Extra a collage of our day
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