Herefordshire Week 343: Tuesday 21 – Monday 27 July 2026

Northamptonshire Midweek Mini Break. Pont Esgob Figure of Eight. Forty Acres Apples Arrive. Very Hot, but turning cooooool. Still no rain. Skirrid from Bryn Arw Gym on Tuesday morning, home for lunch in the shade of the log shed yew. Still so hot. Leaves drifting down from the hazelnut trees, mistletoe leaves crunching underfoot. Greenapple came to replace two of the three septic tank covers, No 3 turns out to be a round one which he’ll come and do next week. Late afternoon I sat outside with a pot of tea and a welsh cake watching butterflies and bees on the knapweed. Up early on Wednesday to drive over to Northants to spend a few days with HW – Hazel and PR came too. Lot of chat. Very hot still. A morning out at Castle Ashby on Thursday strolling around the gardens and lunching at the cafe before meeting up with LM in Harrold County Park for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Castle Ashby Breakfast and more tea and chat sitting out on HW’s patio on Friday morning before an afternoon…