After taking my mum for her second Covid vaccination and before a garden get together with family members I had a window of opportunity to take advantage of the glorious sunshine.
I walked to my favourite local pool and sat for a while enjoying the sounds of nature. I watched fish swimming just under the surface and had a lovely conversation with a gentleman that lives near to the pool.
Later I enjoyed ‘fine dining’, although it had dropped a bit too chilly for a ‘fine dining’ on the patio experience.
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… on a sunny Sunday afternoon
The garden’s initial creation lay in Colonel Harry Clive’s wartime decision of 1940, to provide his ailing wife – Dorothy – with a ‘series of interesting walks’ as she battled with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately Dorothy died in 1942 but Colonel Clive continued work apace throughout the 1940s and 1950s, especially in The Quarry Garden which covers approximately 2 acres.
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Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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Part of this walk took me along fully urban routes rather than my more normal semi-urban routes. I did not photograph the fully urban areas. I only walked them to get my bearings on how to link local pathways together. My explorations led to a 7 mile walk in the afternoon sunshine.
It was not the best of routes for a ’sit and rest a while’ bench, I had to do a detour to experience that pleasure 
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… followed by the arrival of my new garden bench and later fine dining at Chez Nous.
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