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You can just see the edge of the village with Cracken Edge jutting out above it - the farm is out of sight to the left of the picture. 


Chinley is quite a sprawling village now and in the last 15 years all the houses down to the right have been built.
In summer these hills will all be beautifully green.
I always feel that spring is on the way when, in spite of gales and lashing rain my brave little daffodils start flowering in the narrow lane just before Windy Bend.
Inevitably a ggiant gap has fallen in the narrow just after Nic had repaired another one close by - truly a hill farmer's work is never done as far as drystone walling is concerned.
The gales didn't affect us much - we had a night of high wind but no trees or even branches came down. other parts of the country weren't as lucky
But it is not all work and last Friday we went over to St Helens to watch Nic's rugby league team snatch victory from Hull in the last 5 minutes of play.
And we also enjoyed a belated birthday meal at our favourite Italian restaurant- the Vecchia Italia - in Chapel-en-le-Frith with our good friends Tony and Effie.

The place was packed and buzzing and the food and welcome was as good as ever. It makes us feel really old as Giovanni's son Salvi is now front of house and we remember when he was a toddler! Dad was on duty in the kitchen
Earlier in the day we had braved a freezingly cold wind to go over to Buxton as the local Mercian Regiment - an amalgamation of the Cheshires and the Sherwood Foresters- was being given the freedom of the Borough and were marching through the town to a ceremony in the Pavilion Gardens. 
The lady Mayoress inspected the troops and Nic and I flew the flag. The lads have been in Afghanistan and it was good to see them back but they must have been chilled to the bone as the wind was icy. it was a moving and impressive ceremony and a good turnout to show our appreciation of their bravery.
The big excitement for our grandchildren has been the arrival of Poppy, a sweet looking but difficult to catch pony!
Karen has spent any spare moments in her busy day enticing the little beast into a smaller field so that she can get her used to being held and eventually ridden.
Nicole is very thrilled with her pony and William is thinking about it but is still much happier if he can sit in the digger when daddy is making the farmyard look tidy!
His face says it all!
And to round off a happy week, Karen had a birthday and little William decorated her cake with me while Daddy and Nicole went to the Trafford Centre to choose a special present




















1 comment:
I love all the pictures of South Head etc. You are definately getting the hang of blogging, I'm proud of you!!
Love you
xxxx
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