Ringwood

Over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend Maggie, Andy and Tara came to stay. I was leading a ramble on the Saturday afternoon, from Broomy Walk, and M&A came too. Unfortunately the weather in the morning had been heavy rain and only 6 ramblers turned up including M&A. We walked for 5 miles and it didn't rain once, but it was very wet underfoot. I wish I had put on my new waterproof boots. The morning ramble was lead by Lyn and David, they had 12 walkers and it rained most of the time – not pleasant! 

Here we are at Mill Lawn, close to Burley.

New Arrivals

 

Photo taken by Lyn on another ramble. The view is over the River Avon. Do you like the hat?

Doctors orders I have to protect my ears!

Ramblers rest.

In early June we visited Graham and Jean in Marlborough. On all our previous visits it has rained and when they have come to Ringwood it has rained so hope the spell has been broken with this beautiful day. We were well fed and watered and so had to have a well earned rest whilst walking around the town. Marlborough is a lovely old market town with many of its old buildings still intact.

This is an extract from the Marlborough website.

‘Marlborough, in the north east corner of Wiltshire, is the archetypical English market town – a place where coins were minted in Norman times, Tudor kings hunted for deer and where coaches heading west from London stopped to feed and water their horses.’

Marlborough Town Hall         St Margaret’s Church

 

The Green - William Golding , author of 'Lord of the Flies' and a master at Marlborough College lived at No 29. Front door on the left.

Houses on The Green

     

 Update on the surgery front – I had to have the skin removal above my left eyebrow done again because there was a ‘miniscule’ amount of the BCC left behind. I had the same surgeon and the procedure only took 20 minutes, but my eyebrow is moving up my forehead. If the next time I see you I give you this quizzical look, I’m afraid I can’t do anything about it.

That’s it for a while. We are off to Dartmouth on the 10th June so hope to have plenty to report on our return.