Short and sweet

Time hasn't been on my side for the past month or so. Got my new motorcycle just as The Other Half discovered his bike was booked in for a service and he'd surpassed the mileage required.

Luckily, the weather has been excellent recently, so we left the bigger bikes at home, and went out to play on the little Yellow Perils for a few days - which means I've not had a lot of time for my new bike.

However, today I found myself on my own. I needed to go to Wye Farmers' Market, but I only needed a few things, so I duly got the new bike out and headed off.

As the church at Wye is right next to the market, and there didn't appear to be anything on, I decided to have a quick look round.

The resulting shots are on the Kent 2 page.

After I dropped the shopping off back home, I carried on to Lydd, to try and find a grave in the cemetery with an unusual story attached to it. Success! Quite a long story about it has been logged on Kent 1.

They were the only places I managed today - weekends in the school holidays this close to the coastal resorts are not conducive to peace and quiet!

Churches, dogs, and strange conversations

 So, at a loose end today, and it being a lovely sunny day, I decided to take one of the small bikes and poke around some more local villages. I worked out a route that would take in 9 of them, but in the end, the heat, dehydration, and increasingly heavy traffic in the Canterbury area, beat me.

I did, however, manage 5 of them. Dogs and conversations will be included amongst the write-ups. So, the article about Chilham on the Kent1 page, will be updated. The remaining four (Godmersham, Chartham, Sturry and Fordwich) will appear on the Kent2 page

Changing Plans

 Robert Bruce held that 'The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry' - only he said it in a broad Scottish brogue.

He wasn't wrong though. I spent the most part of the winter, making plans to go to some very interesting places. The year started off well, with a lot of ground covered.  Even bought a new motorcycle to do the longer trips on.

However, since the visit to St. Albans, things seem to have fallen apart a bit. All of my city and town trips are now on hold for the foreseeable future, because of the serious unrest in this country. I just don't feel safe going into places with large populations.

Luckily, I still have quite a lot of small villages and curious places to cover. These are mostly ones I would normally do on 'Twinkle', my little yellow bike. However, I am now reviewing them, to see if I  can do some on the new bike - otherwise, I can't see me riding it too much at the present

Ah well, normal service will be resumed, when the Far Right get over themselves, and stop preaching hate to those who believe every idiotic thing they are told................