Stella's Superb Sunday Stroll

We had intended to walk along the river this morning but mummy got distracted with bloggy things and by the time we got along the farm track it was getting quite sunny.

So, instead of turning left we went straight on along the fields as I vaguely remembered there was more tree cover further on from a geocaching walk we did not along after we moved here. 

Apparently things change and not much looked the same from 2009 but Stella was happily trotting along and pleased to be off-lead for longer than usual.

I was enjoying all the green but noticed she'd stopped dead in her tracks and I wondered whether there were horses approaching or something but it was just 2 friendly Labradors called Charlie and Bailey that were very pleased to see us as not many people use the track anymore. 

The dogs' mum and dad invited us to walk along with them and we had a smashing chat about geocaching; the local landscape; dogs; photography; my old village; horses; walking; swans...lovely people. We ended up walking all the way to their house and were shown a beautiful conversion (There's even the original well in the garden, amazing, ) which I presumed to be a barn. No, it had been an abattoir. 

"Oh yes", I said, "I remember a friend mentioning an abattoir somewhere down here when he saw a photograph I'd taken on an evening walkies last year." 

The rest of our long conversation now seems quite surreal as it turned out the gentleman is not only a cousin to my friend but also someone I should have recognised anyway. The penny didn't drop even when he mentioned Twitter. The penny didn't drop when he told me his name and said to tell my friend I'd seen him. 

But as we walked home I kept thinking the name rang a bell and I did tweet him later to say how nice it was to see him and I did now realise who he was. I didn't tell him I used to follow him on Twitter but he got lost in one of my frequent culls over the years! 

Stella being made so welcome backfired for evening walkies though when she thought it entirely appropriate to wander in and out of people's gardens along the farm track...in her defence they had no gates and I still find it weird there's houses there with no road! 

The extra is a collage from then as I took the camera out again for some #ayearwithmycamera homework. This was to take a photo every 5 minutes for an hour but only use 3 seconds to take the shot. Some worked out better than others as you can imagine!