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Wherenext I was about to post that she is already home, she was discharge around the time you were making your post! The physio's came today and did a lot of exercises with her, plus the stair test, then she had an x-ray which the Consultant was happy with so I don't think there was any pressing need to keep her in. I am left to watch her like a hawk to make sure doesn't try to overdo things. She seems to be moving around a bit easier but, of course, there is still pain from the operation. Things seem to have changed a bit since I had mine done as she has to inject herself with a blood thinners for the next nine nights. Perhaps less onerous to Margaret as she uses insulin? We now have a list of appointments but the first one is not for another two weeks.

BTW that jigsaw looked a bit difficult?

David

Yesterday was a good day day - the milk cows went out to grass for the first time since October.

Don’t stand in their way as they hop, skip and jump, and run through the yard to the field! It’s the beginning of the end of winter.

We had day out today chasing a steam train around the NYM railway. I’m not really into trains at all but I do like a lovely steam one. These were taken at Goathland and Levisham stations.

@DavidKlyne I hope Margaret is feeling ok today and doing well. Fingers crossed she can get home tomorrow.

We’re loving this good weather - not so we can get away, but so we can get Spring work done before it changes. Fields have been aerated, rolled, had slurry or muck spread on them (not necessarily in that order) and it’s now up to Nature (and the weather) to do their bit to make the grass grow.

I was taken on a drive round the fields last night and took this photo. In the far distance is the M6 - between J36 and J37. Any odd marks are muck on the windscreen (I didn’t get out).

My brother-in-law does walling for us and the old trailer acts as a refuge when it rains.

A bright warm start to the day with a thin cloud cover. However by the time we arrived at Fellbrigg the cloud had built up and it was somewhat cooler, but still warm enough for me to go without a coat. We did the circular Lake Walk and again saw lots of frogs and toads. Again decided to give the house a miss and after lunch did V for Victory walk. Bumped into the couple who were staying at the club's West Runton site that we were talking to yesterday! We had the odd spot of rain as we made it back to the car and have had a couple of showers since getting back to our site.

Lots of beautiful daffodils out around the Hall.

Good day out yesterday for us, to Peterborough. We arrived around12.30pm after a good drive down, found the car park easily (thank you @milliehull) Decided to have a meal first, found a nice eatery by the Cathedral precinct, then went back for the hound. Got to Cathedral around 2.00pm, and already queues in place, so we joined it, and after an hour and a half of shuffling forwards, finally got to the first case of The Longest Yarn. It wasn’t a boring wait, as we took it in turns to queue and have a good look around, and the Cathedral staff/ volunteers were up and down, as well as chatting with other folks. Sadly didn’t meet up with Millie though, as you could only go one way round. Well worth going to see, it’s a Bayeaux Tapestry for our era, sad, horrible in some ways, wonderfully cheerful in others, and a huge credit to all those involved. One of the knitters was in the Cathedral telling folks a bit about the project as well. The details are astonishing really. Lots of the cases have sponsors as well which is good. We came away with the book telling the story of the project, and of course donated to both the Cathedral and the project. The knitters are going to do “The UK at War” and the first cases for this second project is going to Southall Minster in September. I took some photos to have a really good look at some of the details at home.

We were very late leaving Cathedral and Peterborough, and came home a different way to avoid rush hour on A1, very interesting, saw a beautiful Barn Owl out hunting. Can highly recommend to anyone close enough to pay a visit.

French Madamoiselle distracting German soldiers from looking in hay wagon. Two soldiers hidden in the hay!

British and US top brass discussing Landings.

This was my favourite case. The Home front, showing life going on in the backyards (note the lovely pig in its sty bottom right) while the vehicles rumble past ready to board ships.

You certainly managed to fit a lot in during your time at York @DSB and pleased that you got back home ok.

@heddlo I hope that the doctor is right and your pain will decrease as the flare up dies down.

Yet another fine day today, that is 8 in a row, I wonder how long they will last. It was sunny most of the time but did cloud up for a while in the afternoon. We headed down to Bag Enderby this morning to do the second half of the In the Footsteps of Tennyson walk we did last time we were in the area. We have never seen so many wild Snowdrops before, along the road verges and in the copses. Visited both of the St Margaret's Churches at Bag Enderby and Somersby, where Alfred Lord Tennyson's father, George, was the rector. We were unable to get a decent view of the house where the family lived and Alfred was born in Somersby.

Somersby Church, Constructed sometime before 1612

Bag Enderby Church, built around 1407

Effigy in Bag Enderby's church to Andrew & Dorothy Gedney. Note the spellings of her name!

A profusion of Snowdrops