First Picnic!

How can out only be the first picnic of 2021? We're halfway through April! Actually, it's quite possible it's our first picnic of the 'twenties'!

A gradually improving day into the afternoon, when it peaked and later turned to rain. We took Mollie Camper up to Coaley Peak with flasks of tea and hastily made sandwiches. All around us there were groups of people coming together for similar feasts, meeting friends and family in neutral territory.

Today marks the fifty-first anniversary of the end of The Beatles as a group. More poignantly the twenty-third anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Who then would have imagined a UK politician would seek actively to disrupt the years of peace that then lay ahead, and send us back to 'the troubles'.