Comments | lil_shepherd: An Unexpected Grand Day Out.

lil_shepherd

An Unexpected Grand Day Out.

Jun 26, 2011 14:30

Yesterday, I was on chauffeur duty. One of Ina's huge number of cousins was getting married and she had promised to go. However, there was no way she was going to be able to get back from the reception, so she asked me to drive her down to Otford for the wedding ceremony. I could take Little Dog Draco for a walk around the Darent valley, and she ( Read more... )

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Comments 15

lapswood June 26 2011, 13:44:03 UTC

These are all gorgeous! Very green for this time of the year in those landscape shots. A couple definetly Britscape Photo material!

lil_shepherd June 26 2011, 13:50:12 UTC

I will be posting a couple to Britscape, Chad, honest...

lapswood June 26 2011, 13:56:33 UTC

Thank you for your continuing support for Britscape! ;0)

shiv5468 June 26 2011, 13:55:04 UTC

Oh that does look pretty.

lukadreaming June 26 2011, 14:00:08 UTC

These are gorgeous! I don't think I've ever been down that way.

lil_shepherd June 26 2011, 14:17:46 UTC

It's a marvellous village. Unfortunately, it's prime commuter belt, on the Pilgrim's Way and a conservation area. It has four pubs, a library, a village hall, a huge recreation ground, a station, regular buses, and lots of shops, even if they mainly sell antiques. The result of which, as you can imagine, is that property prices are high, even for Kent. In fact, they're a lot higher than where we live, in an expensive area of Essex. *sigh*

heleninwales June 26 2011, 18:20:55 UTC

A really nice series of shots and so wonderfully English!

It's not an area of the country I've every visited, so it's nice to get a glimpse of what it's like.

lil_shepherd June 27 2011, 08:06:39 UTC

Well, I'd never been to North Wales until Milford a couple of years back!

I'm Yorkshire born but I've been living in the London area for over 30 years, and my housemate/best buddy's family are basically Kent people (though she, as she insists, is a born-Cockney) so I've got to see a lot of Kent. It's a lovely county and, in parts, lives up to its "garden of England" nickname.

carl_allery June 26 2011, 19:52:43 UTC

That second shot, of the half-timbered building is fantastic. Also, excellent shot of the cricket - I wonder what happened next. Looks like a very nice pitch.

The only thing that distinguished the slightly sloping and somewhat rough pitch at Shepton Mallet, was that on the appropriate Saturday evening in June, one could hear music drifting over the hill from Pilton! :)

lil_shepherd June 26 2011, 20:43:49 UTC

It's a great pitch though not as good as the Shoreham one up the road, or some of those I've seen in the Weald. Mind you, for a village they also have proper tennis courts, football and rugby pitches, and a superb children's playground, four pubs, three churches, the ruin of a Bishop's Palace etc etc. And it's really quite small.