Old Basing

After wandering around Odiham we got some lunch at a pub near to where we live in Old Basing.  It's one of those places that's been too close to where we live to bother about exploring.  It's often the way isn't it? I used to live near Bath and I can honestly say I've never set foot in the abbey, the pump rooms or a place called Sally Lunns.  I lived in Manchester and never took a trip out of there to explore the Lakes, Liverpool or Yorkshire?!

Anyway, I'm older and wiser now and Old Basing really isn't that much compared with those other places but it's got a historical house there and so we took a look around.

Hungerford revisited

We once lived in a small rural town which gave us nice escapes into the countryside.  Due to impending redundancy we had to relocate to somewhere not as nice and so on a sunny weekend recently we went back to visit.  

(Apologies for the really long post...)

 

 

After a walk in the countryside we went to Cobbs farm shop where we picked up some bulbs and had lunch.  We're currently eating meat free for a month and given the farm shop is really good for their meat and fish the lunch menu didn't have a wide choice for vegetarians.  We had welsh rarebit and lovely it was too.

And finally, the place we used to call home...

Lessons learnt

When we were in London in the summer we went to the Lomography store and purchased some film.  The conditions to get the best photos from this film are bright sunshine and then lots of colours which will then come through beautifully.  Of course we're not experts and know this now we have had a film devleoped.  

The first part of our film was taken in London on a really cloudy day, in St Ives as the sun was going down and then on Sunday just gone when the sun did come out....hmm

Here are some of my favourites from the film.  Lesson learnt: put film in camera if conditions suit and use it up sooner than 6 months.

London

St Ives

Sunday wanderings

All good things come to an end

We've been getting out as much as we can while being off work for the Christmas holidays and so yesterday we took a drive to Arlesford.  Having just taken down our Christmas tree it was nice to see that Arlesford were clinging onto Christmas as long as possible with wreaths lining most the front doors.  I'm also loving the Christmas trees above the doors!

I'm back to work tomorrow, it only feels like yesterday I was saying we were off to Devon.  I'm looking forward to getting my brain in gear again but will still be living for the weekend when we can go wandering again.

 

Oh I'm a sucker for any animal!

Ahh shy couple :)