Monday 29 May 2017
Up early and packed the car to go to the Forbidden Corner,
near Leyburn and Middleham, with the journey involving driving over past
Grassington towards Aysgarth – quite dramatic, but very wet and getting wetter
as we got closer. The drive was rather tortuous, particularly near Middleham and
we had race horses to negotiate.
The rain didn’t stop all morning, but it wasn’t as heavy as
we had feared and the children enjoyed themselves as much as they would have if
it had been fine. The Forbidden Corner is a truly extraordinary place, put
together with immense imagination and we all enjoyed exploring. It was decided
that we would all becamp to the café for drinks, when Fred started to protest
and I wanted a coffee. When we came back out, there were two more intakes of
people, so it was therefore much busier and we had to queue to get through
several parts.
Lunch in the car in the drizzle, then on and down to Masham.
I had a quick word with Graham, in the bungalow attached to Mum’s while Ian
read meters. The garden needs some attention, but it was too wet to send the
boys down to the park, and we couldn’t have them in the house, so we went to
Jonny Bagdad’s café in the market place, for a drink and set off for
Boroughbridge Manor.
I had phone ahead, and, when we got to the manor, Mum was
waiting for us in reception, in a wheelchair. We went through to the
conservatory and had tea and cake brought for us. Mum was struggling to hear
and concentrate and didn’t show any particular interest in photos of Alex’s
wedding, nor really in the children. It was quite touching to see how much
interest there was among the other residents when we walked the boys through –
children must be seen so seldom.
We didn’t stay very long, and took Mum back upstairs for her
tea.
It was quite a long way back to the barn for tea and telly.
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