June 24th 2016
Trailing Round Teversal
Thankfully the monsoon season seems to have ended and we gathered at the visitor centre at Teversal in the June sunshine - OK so not quite up to Sardinian standards but at least it was dry.
Bacon butties and the vegetarian option of egg butties were the order of the day and all accompanied by cries of astonishment at the price and at the tale of 'goings on' which the nice gentleman volunteer treated us to.
Betty's new best friend
The atmosphere was a bit subdued as we were all still reeling from the results of the referendum but Lynn soon arrived to cheer us all up and fortified by all the additives in the dog sausage she had just eaten Betty showed her excitement at meeting Lynn for the first time. (Betty had eaten the dog sausage - not Lynn!)
All set for a wheel nice day
A text message from Pam to let us know she wouldn't be along until later led to a quick rethink of plans and ever flexible (some of us more flexible than others!) we set off for walk number one up to Teversal village.
No comment!
Jo and Betty lead the way whilst Helen M stays behind to do the dirty work.
We walked up through the lovely old Teversal village - a perfect little place - apart from no tea room, no pub and no village shop! And probably no doctors, no library and no bus service but lots of peace and quiet
The driveway to Teversal Manor which is widely considered to be the fictional Wragby Hall in DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I think I've seen a ghost - no just one of the ladies of the village.
We wandered round the lovely old church of St Katherine, with it's amazing Norman doorway and found two gravestones with the date 1681. Happily we were able to go inside as two village ladies were making their daily visit, they made us very welcome and were full of information and for even more information and the legend of St Katherine go to:
Maggie looking a little cross?
The organist entertains.....
looks a bit ropey to me!
We left the church and headed off down the fields, hoping that Jo's weather forecast of rain at four was incorrect.
The four o'clock clouds are gathering
Best foot forwards girls!
Betty found a wee stream...
Teversal pastures - a wonderful meadow full of wild flowers
We walked back along the trail to the visitor centre to make our rendezvous with Pam, Lynn had to leave before Pam arrived and is now convinced that Pam is avoiding her! Thankfully Jo's weather forecast was wrong and the grey clouds didn't trouble us and Pam arrived safely.
Very rare black bunny, indigenous to Teversal - spotted whilst we were waiting for Pam
We drove to the other car park to make our ascent to the highest point in Nottinghamshire and the miner - not the hostelry which some babes had been anticipating!
Crich stand in the distance
Prize available for anyone who can spot Lincoln Cathedral
It must be over there....
No, it's over there....
And Pam is looking for the silver lining
With such a wonderful view we all got out our pencils to attempt to capture the moment
Helen tried very hard to keep things in proportion - not an easy
task!
Study those proportions
Pam doing it her way!
Clutching our masterpieces we headed back down the hill where we said goodbye to Jo and the rest of us headed for the Carnarvon Arms for drinks and food.
The journey home was not straightforward for all of us and here is the account of the excitement from the woman who scoffed at satnav!
'Alison and Maggie set off with me not far behind and just as we were in the middle of nowhere we were familiar with, a policeman redirected us away from 'an incident', so we got hopelessly lost!! Fortunately, once the satnav realised that I was not going to turn around and annoy the policemen, I was able to lead Alison and Maggie out of the mess and eventually onto the A38... a somewhat circuitous route but we made it.'
And last but not least the bird list for the day:
blackbird
buzzard
chiffchaff
crow
goldfinch
house sparrow
kestrel*
pied wagtail
robin
starling*
swallow
swift**
wood pigeon
Although only 13 birds for the day, surprisingly two
recorded firsts for the year * and a first ever GB spotting of a swift (circling
around the miner, surely captured in someone’s
sketch!). A grand total of 51 for the year and now 84 for our running
total.
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