Sunday Morning Wander

If weekends in November continue to be as sunny as this weekend, I won't complain. Last week I was kept busy with various parents/careers/college type evenings for the young man - I find this stage of parenting really really hard. Important decisions have to be made - and it feels like we are jumping into the unknown. Saturday saw hubby and I tackling a major project which I will be telling you about soon - I am calling it "Operation Silk Purse" . So today was the first day we could take a nice long walk - but his football team were on telly at 12 noon, and he is off to work later, so it had to be an early morning start. We walked up to Wentworth - one day I am going to count how many gate houses there are around Wentworth Woodhouse.

Did I ever tell you that William Hague was born in Wentworth and his parents lived here up until their death? We were going to walk up to Needles Eye - it looked lovely across the fields.

The lanes all have a golden carpet to walk through after the windy evening of the last week.

They have a fence around the bottom of the monument which hasn't been there before - I wonder if the top is unstable?

Its a fairly high point here - we looked down towards the village.

and across to the town of Hoyland.

We walked back through the woods - the ferns were illuminated by the sunshine.

I spotted some green shoots of recovery - unfortunately not in the economy!

Our boots got incredibly muddy walking back across the fields.

Although the sunshine was in the wrong spot - I couldn't resist taking a photograph from this angle as I had taken one from here in spring when the Clematis was out.

We wandered back through the village,

and back up the church path.

And noticed this in the field. Not a lot of people realise that in the middle of the large grazing field, there is a landing strip so that Sir Philip Vyvian Naylor-Leyland can land his light aircraft when he comes to visit the village - I believe that he is heir to the Fitzwilliam Estate. Apparently two weeks ago, the plane skidded and had a bit of a crash into a wall, but it looks as if its been fixed (the plane, not the wall which still has a big hole in it!). I think his main residence is Milton Hall in Cambridgeshire.

So we got back just in time for the match to start - and they won 5 - 2 which was nice for a change!!