We woke up to dryish morning but it was very windy. I couldn’t hear my windmill going round and
was worried it had blown away but it is still there spinning happily. We have had so many comments the year about
the windmill and people asking where we got it from – well it came from the
Outer Banks in North Carolina, USA. I
bought it last year and strangely enough I don’t think anyone commented last
year! The first photo is of it
stationary and the other going round.
I’m quite impressed with the difference!
There was a Mummy duck with six tiny babies by us last night
– I couldn’t get a photo of them all together as Mum seemed to have very little
control over her brood! I just hope they
survive.
We were getting very low on Elsan cassette space so moved on
to Sutton Cheney Wharf where there is water, rubbish and elsan emptying though
neither Pearsons nor the Geo map says so.
We stopped at the Shenton aqueduct so I could visit the farm
shop – the milk is getting desperate now!
It is quite a climb down rickety steps to get to the road and the farm
shop wasn’t worth going to – very disappointing.
Richard was getting fed up with the wind so we pulled over
before Bridge 37 and settled down for the rest of the rocky day! I actually felt a little sea sick at one
stage as the gentle rocking doesn’t do anything for my constitution! I discovered this when I used to sail – give
me a strong wind and rough sea and I am usually OK but give me a swell and
slaloping and I will be sick!
During the afternoon we were trying to decide what we are
going to do over the next few days.
Looking at the map there are some great village names locally. Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva (from the old
english sceap + eg meaning 'island or dry ground in the marsh where the sheep
graze – Magna being great and Parva meaning little), Ratcliffe Culey (The
toponym "Ratcliffe" is derived from Old English, referring to the
local red clay and the fact that it is on high land. Culey is the name of a
former lord of the manor), Norton-Juxta-Twycross (Norton is believed to be
derived from North Tun, Tun being Anglo-Saxon for settlement – Juxta means
alongside - 'Twycross' because its centre lies at the intersection of three
roads), Newton Burgoland (The place-name is first shown in the Domesday Book of
1086, where it appears as Neutone. It is referred to as Neuton Burgilon in
1390. The name 'Newton' means 'new homestead or village'. The 'Burgoland'
element refers to the Burgilon family, the name meaning 'Burgundian') and, best
of all, Barton in the Beans (once known as "Barton-in-Fabis" meaning
grange i.e. an outlying farm within an estate.
Faba being Latin for bean).
4.71 miles
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Totally agree about the farm shop. The phrase why bother might have been inspired by it!
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