A change of plan

One thing's for certain. Today's rabbit is wild. I seem to have had to dig so many hard metal pellets out of it, it was clearly shot. At the moment the jointed rabbit is marinading in some red wine along with various other herbs & flavourings, ready to be cooked this afternoon.

On Thursday, for some reason the Farmers' Market, wasn't on. We turned up to find the church hall where it is held was all locked up & no sign of why. Have they changed the day? Have they stopped having Farmers' Markets in Morecambe? Have they relocated the market elsewhere in Morecambe? No indication was given. We'll just have to keep our eyes open for the next lot of ads, if there are any. 

As we were on the road bright & early, we decided to make it the day to go down to the garden centre at Barton Grange. It's the first time we've ever been. It's not far from Preston so quite a distance from home for us. It's an absolutely enormous place with a farm shop (a sort of permanent farmer's market), cook shop, gift shop, restaurant, cafe, acres of plants. We spent quite a while there, strolling around. We didn't buy much but were amazed by all there was to see. At one point we stopped for a sit down & a spot of lunch. The side salads accompanying our sandwiches were awash with flavour, which gave us some encouragement to think that the fresh veg for sale in the farm shop , although pricey, was probably good quality. We indulged in that childhood delight, dandelion & burdock, for a drink. In the end tiredness began to overwhelm us, & anyhow we wanted to be back, through Lancaster before the main Lancaster rush hour traffic ground to a virtual halt, as happens every day.

We were both pretty well pooped. It's not often we both end tucked up in bed by 8pm. Although the Fox found the day tiring, and he was finding his leg dragging by the end, nonetheless, next day he was back to normal again. He's obviously coped well with the trip - a fact that augurs well for our holiday next month. To discover that was one of the main reasons for our trip.

Would we go to Barton Grange again? I'm not sure. It seems a long way to go when so many of the things we could have bought more locally or on line. They was certainly plenty to see so maybe we will venture again some time but it won't be very often.It was lovely to see the banks of golden daffodils along the roadside as we went. It was also lovely to have a mild sunny day to go & that seems to have continued ever since. Has summer jumped through spring to arrive with the changing of the clocks tonight? I wonder. I don't entirely trust it to last.