I don't know if you noticed, however there was no blog n the 24th June. OMG, we must have had a day off. So that means I only have to catch up from the 30th to today which is the 4th July, so just 5 days. As today is also a day off ( kinda), I could give it my best shot. I also forgot something when writing about our day at Pembridge. I remembered the two trucks meeting head on in the village, however I managed to block this memory. Cheryl is still trying to...

News Headline: June has just been confirmed as the hottest on record. This was our last day at Kington and we had left it for washing the hair and then visiting Pembridge. Pembridge because it is the longest of the Black & White trail villages. It's a ribbon village with only a couple of side streets in the centre. How long? Well Ches in the passenger seat took 1 min and 20sec of video footage. That was the plan. Because Ches had failed to remind me...

This was a day that was full of uncertainty. Would the weather hold or dump rain? Would we manage to visit all of the villages on this southern stretch of the Black and White Trail? Would any village come up to the standard of Eardisland? Almost, yes and not quite. Unlike our usual practice, we began with the closest village to us and worked our way away from home, culminating in Cheese Dairy. A miracle did happen. Sheila followed my instructions and actua...

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.  Being England, it’s usually sooner.  That is, the temperature plummeted to a daytime maximum of 16c with leaden sky and light showers.  Of all times to happen however.  This trip had been built around these four days in Herefordshire and taking the “Black and White Village Trail.  Thirteen villages in a wedge shape corner of Herefordshire with hundreds of timber framed houses, shops and pubs.  The old oak timbers...

We spent all afternoon strolling around the village photographing everything from every direction. Perhaps being built around the river and the bridge adds to the atmosphere. Whatever, after now having visited all the villages in the day after we were here at Eardisland, we vote it the village that we love the most. I used up all my energy in photographing. I should also admit that most of the photographs we have taken have been on my new Samsung S23 Ultra phone....