Sunday 16 November 2008

Derbyshire pt II


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A promise is a promise. Continuing on from post #1, I think I might move to Derbyshire later in life. We had perfect weather the whole weekend, absolutely scorching, along with the usual combination of good food and drink, long walks and picnic's plus quite a lot of tennis.


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The place we were staying in was top notch, a farm in the middle of nowhere with their own tennis court. Tennis makes your feet go all warm.


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Ladybird loving my Adidas.


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The locals were great and also very tasty! Breakfast was served consisting only of local produce.


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A big fire erupted in a field next to us in the middle of our afternoon game of tennis, but nobody was seriously hurt. A harvester caught fire inside and started spewing out burning embers behind itself and it took a while before the driver realised that he was dishing out a bit of burnt-earth-policy.


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Go to Matlock Bath and experience the mad biker invasion every weekend. We took the cable car up to the top of the Heights of Abraham, some spectacular scenery from up there and we also had a lovely picnic, complete with an afternoon snooze in the sunshine.


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Note to self: use some sunscreen next time you spend the midday hours on a tennis court in blazing sunshine. That really hurt afterwards...


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I also tried some long-shutter speed photography lit only by mobile phone - worked a treat!


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