The rain has stopped!
Nexus have issued a book of Metro walks;
the Ladies walked the south bank of the Tyne having dismounted from the train at Hebburn and walked to Pelaw station via Bill Quay Community Farm; the farm has good food, all sorts of animals & is free! There is a bookshop nearby where we were unable to resist a browse and buy!
The cereals are being harvested; the rape is in; wheat has turned golden & is in mid cut; barley is bearded and whiskery to the point of froth.
My neighbour has left rhubarb (mmm.... crumble), courgettes(almost marrow size) and my favourite- sweet peas- on the doorstep; thrice now the house has been scented with the perfume from sweetpeas.
At Raby Castle the deer were distant but the borders were buzzing when we visited;
King Cnut the Dane owned Raby first;
then into the moated castle came the Nevilles who orchestrated 'The Rising of the North' in the Great Hall; they rose in support of Mary, Queen of Scots (who did have a much better claim to the English throne than Elizabeth I!)
The castle was taken as part of the punishment for this and the Vane family took up residence. The present owner, Lord Barnard, is a member of the original Nevill family.The gardens are beautiful! Buddleia (the butterfly bush), loosestrife, sedum, Lucifer (a montbretia) were just a few of the bee attractions amid the lily ponds and ancient yew hedges.
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