Cup of tea ..

I had made plans for today.

Researched where disabled toilets were.


There are apps and stuff that tells you this.


So, this hermit planned a trip over the border into deepest darkest England on to the Cheshire plains.

It was frosty and a bit misty when I set off...


Then I panicked at the thought of going out for the whole day, and going a distance, which I have not done since pre covid and lockdowns. It was the needing the toilet issue and finding one, despite me meticulously planning the day.


My driving was fine. I was happy driving, I enjoy driving, I just panicked over the urgently wanting a toilet issue. I pulled into a layby, sat for a bit. There was a cafe opposite which I've never been to before and I thought look this is not far from home how about just going to this one and then going back home again...


That would be a good option wouldn't it...

Absolutely not I told myself. You are going over the border into England and you are going to the destination you have keyed in on your sat nav I told myself...but I so wanted to come back home...


I put the heated steering wheel on. And went for the open motorway. The going to work traffic had gone to work so it was a little less crowded than usual, although it was pretty packed with heavy lorries, but the traffic was moving and most of doing 70. There was a huge lorry carrying gravel. His max speed was 50 I think. So I drove behind him. Very unusually all the different turns I needed to take down different roads, he keeps still in front of me and just short of my destination he turned right to wherever he was delivering his gravel...


Just up the road was my destination! A garden centre I used to go with J many many years ago. They had an amazing cafe then. But the cafe area has been completely rebuilt it is massive, but still retains the intimacy of the original cafe with all these little rooms. Even though it has been renovated, it still felt the same place with the same lovely people serving. And it now has a Wi-Fi. I stayed in the cafe five hours!!!


I had an amazing breakfast. I used loads of their Wi-Fi. Then I treated myself to a Victoria sponge which I have been looking forward to for about a year or more... It was delicious but I think that has satisfied my longing (which I know I have mentioned on here) for a Victoria Sponge, possibly for forever now...



There were other people with laptops and stuff who stayed at their tables for even longer than I did... So it was great that that was acceptable and you didn't feel the pressure to leave once you had finished your food. 


I will go back again. And they had several very large disabled toilets on their site. I bought some plants, some yellow wallflowers. 


I did not get back home until 3:30 p.m. and it is getting dark by now. 


I was wiped out when I got home and went straight to sleep.  


So my creative...well, it's a little creative, this is a photo of the tea pot, cup&saucer and little jug of milk.


It was nice meeting different people, everyone was very friendly. I had a few conversations with strangers. And that satisfied this hermit's need for interaction with people for maybe a week or so...

Nighttime wildlife video

I had a bit of a disaster here. The trail camera only recorded sections of five to ten seconds instead of three minutes... I have no idea why the trail camera malfunctioned. But this  slightly disjointed video was the best I could do with it.


https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCRhRQro3Bq/?igsh=MWJ3anpoNzFkeDRpeQ== 


Same vid on

TikTok 

BUT THE LINK ISN'T POSTING...so I'll post this and try and find out why...if I can ..

But last night, I had a last ditch try on YouTube with this same video. It was still troublesome to post but I got it up. And, surprise surprise, it has got 539 views...
So my second link for the video will be for YouTube tonight, if you cannot access Instagram.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ie4rmzGutak?si=HSXn_-m6imwMArlZ 

(Sorry, I made a mess of the YT link  It should work now. I was too tired before)


Have the best of the rest of your day.