Chagford Lido and a Trip to Parke, Bovey Tracey, Devon - 25th May 2019

We're off down to Devon to see Grandma J in her new place in Bovey Tracey, Devon. Whilst there, we haul her out for a visit the nearby Parke Estate, a National Trust place but which has an independent café, where Parke House is also leased out to the Dartmoor National Park Authority. Later, we stop off at Chagford Lido, which is heaving on account of it being its first open day of the season. Then we're over to Sis and Matt's for a barbeque in the garden.

next album: The Tom Cobley and a Return to Haytor, Bovey Tracey, Devon - 27th May 2019
previous album: The BSCC at Pulham Market and Hopton, and Lunch in Paddington - 21st May 2019

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Fred's got his guitar out

Fred's got his guitar out

Fred gets his flute out

Fred plays some flute for Grandma J

Isobel chats to Grandma J

Harry chats to Grandma J

Grandma J and Harry in the Mulberry lounge

The boys climb the grand staircase

Fred gets his music together

We get ready to haul Grandma J out for a trip

Mother looks around

Mother shows off the gardens

Outside Mother's pad

Fred puts his instruments away

Harry with Grandma J

Some welly boots have been turned into plant pots

We arrive at the Parke car park

The National Trust van looks almost transparent

We visit the walled garden

Grandma J in the walled garden

Roaming around the fruit and vegetables

A view of the café

The gang in the lettuce beds

The unusually-shaped walled garden

The boys on a path

Fred looks at the menu suspiciously

Grandma J and Fred

A nice pot of flowers

A pony in a yellow field

A nice path

Grandma J

The gang

A robin flits about looking for crumbs

In the café courtyard

An ancient trolley or cart

A dog pines for its own, who's in the bogs

Harry strokes the pining dog

Parke House

The boys run around

A viw of the woods at Parke

Another Devon view

Stomping up the steep hill back to the car park

Sheep in a small paddock

More horses in a field of buttercups

The gang hang on a gate and watch the sheep

Isobel phones Sis up

Harry stands by Chagford Lido

Harry and Fred paddle around the freezing Lido

Fred has a much-needed hot chocolate

It's busy down at the Lido

We head back to the car park

Someone's walking to Chagford

Isobel, Harry and Fred in the grassy car park

Isobel in Matt and Sis's back garden

Matt gets the barbeque going

A deep lane

The quaint Providence Chapel

A view from the garden

Isobel sorts some fizz out