Our misty dawn soon developed into a day of sunshine sending us on a trip to The Potting Shed at Hyde for lunch.
Looking down from the hill at Gorley Common. This first gallery is mine;
and here is Jackie’s set.
These two cyclists did well to scale the hill unaided, and I was able to congratulate them on this when we discovered that they shared our destination.
The lunch was really good. Mine involved steak and ale pie, peas, chips, and gravy; Jackie’s, baked potato with a shredded cheese filling, salad and coleslaw. The service was as friendly as usual.
Afterwards we enjoyed a closer view of the deer at the bottom of the hill. The first two pictures in this gallery are mine; the next two are by
Jackie, who also produced these catkins,
and this mini photo story of the pony who left some of her hair on a barbed wire fence under which she stretched before wandering off down the road to converse with field ponies feeding on hay.
When four female pheasants dashed across the road in front of us I managed to focus on one.
Given what we consumed for lunch, a light egg mayonnaise salad sufficed for our evening meal.