Adlington

We’ve spent just over a week in Adlington.

View back to the bridge and the park opposite.

On one of our walks we got a bit lost as the footpath was signed to go right through the middle of a quarry. We ended up in what we guess is a disused paintball circuit.

Once we got back on track we were waylaid some considerable time while I fondled my new boyfriend behind the ears….he loved it.

Last week we set off to walk up to Rivington Pike, near Winter Hill. You can see the hills for miles around, and we’ve talked about going there many times. We decided to nip into Horwich for a spot of lunch before the ascent. Horwich is a thriving little town, which appears to have retained it’s small independent shops. I did some Christmas shopping!! There were many pubs (due to open yesterday I guess) and a pub crawl would need to be split over more than one trip.

As we headed out of the town we spied a small brewery in a side street whose front seating area appeared to have customers, so we investigated. What a friendly bunch the locals were, we chatted all afternoon…….so put it this way, we’ll have to walk up to the pike another day….

A view of Rivington Pike from Black Edge Brewery.

As we strolled home after a jolly enjoyable afternoon we watched a barn owl out looking for his tea.

We decided to have a small pop up Jubilee Fibres shop this weekend which made it easy to whip indoors once the sky opened.

 

 

A 30^th birthday party paddle boarded past us!!!

When we were moored by Frederick’s ice cream shop we heard a roar outside. Heather was much closer to the hot air balloon than us on her morning dog walk.

 

We managed to not buy ice cream every day while moored there.

We had some great walks through what is now gorgeous landscapes left from the industrial scars!!!

We thoroughly explored Duxbury Park and alone its bit of the River Yarrow. We found some pretty painted pebbles.

I just love the way the ferns uncurl as the leaves come out.

The scent of the bluebells was overwhelming and in other parts of the woods the smell of wild garlic filled the air.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We decided to set a couple of Geocache travel bugs out on a journey from Duxbury Park. We’ve had the tags since the kids were small and had travel bugs. The idea is, people find the geocache and take the bug to another cache. It’s fun to see where the bugs end up and how far they travel.

We have had some nice sunny days interspersed with some humdingers of thunder & hail storms.

We’ve had the fire on most days, and I’ve done lots of spinning and knitting.