Lancashire...

A day off so it was out and about in the Mini. Drove up to Lancashire, north of the city of Manchester (though there are those still about that claim Manchester is still actually IN Lancashire), had some lunch in a nice pub and then it was doing the antiques centres looking for stuff for my exciting project later in the year.

It's a pretty part of the country, rolling green fields and hills dotted with pretty, and expensive to live in, villages. It a quite a contrast to the city just a few miles away to the south.

Here, we're looking across the valley of the River Douglas to the village of Parbold and Parbold Hill. After the long winter you can see spring beginning to arrive all over the landscape.