We had a super few days in Banbury and considering it’s only just over an hour's drive from Luton, I’m surprised we haven’t ever been there! Our first mission was to restock the larder and 3 trips to the new spacious Lidl, mission was accomplished.
Of course, we had to visit Banbury Cross, in the middle of a very busy roundabout. Plus, the bronze lady riding on a bronze horse. Interestingly, there was an early photo in a pub that showed the cross on a green with a dirt track around it!
Banbury Museum spans the canal, with the canal exhibits being in a glass walkway over the cut, which meant we could watch the boats go under, have a birds eye of view of the town lift bridge and Tooley’s Historic Boatyard. I was unaware of Banbury’s textile history, being the home of ‘plush’ weaving, a velvet type fabric.
John operated the lift bridge for me and locked me down.
On a remote stretch of towpath heading toward Fenny Compton, we had company. The deer trotted along, cautiously looking over its shoulder every now & then.
John spent ages snapping this red kite being bullied by the crows. We know we’re in the south with these massive birds overhead.
We opened Jubilee Fibres at Napton last weekend. The weather was perfect, but the towpath seemed busier in the week than at the weekend. We had 3 lots of our southern friends come to visit.
Richard with just one of his motorbikes.
After we shut shop, most of us retired to the Folly pub, where we sat in the garden and got drinks from their new ‘Potting Shed’ bar.
As usual, we’ve had some stunning sunsets.
We suffered from a bout of noisy neighbaaaars.
And these parents have been renamed ‘our big knocker’!! They really do peck the side of the boat hard & knock very loudly!!
Now I am going to grate the horseradish and chop the mint we’ve just harvested from the towpath’s hedgerow.
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