The back road from Hoxne to Eye
Lockdown Bike Rides and an Anniversary Picnic, Mellis and Brome, Suffolk - 3rd July 2020
As both the boys are in school again, at least for a few weeks, Nosher gets a chance to do a bit of cycling again - mostly the route from Eye via Thornham Parva to Mellis and back via Thrandeston, which is a short but convenient ten miles. Later, it's the ten-year wedding anniversary, so Isobel arranges a lock-down picnic in the pleasant surroundings of the walled garden of the nearby Oaksmere hotel. As we're heading off we are intercepted by a member of staff with a bottle of champagne, which Frazer the owner has generously supplied, to properly finish off the lunch.
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Poppies in the verge outside Hoxne
One of Greater Anglia's new trains
There's a cool old American pick-up in Mellis
An old Chevrolet pick up
The Mellis Railway Tavern
The Yaxley Cherry Tree
An old railway bridge in Yaxley
Under a bridge on the former Mellis-Eye railway
The Old Mill at Mellis, previously Multiyork
There's a Bauhaus look on some straw bales
Judas Lane, heading off towards Mellis
Nosher's bike is abandoned for a wee stop
Part of the old mill at Mellis, with an asbestos roof
The back of the old MultiYork building
Mellis railway crossing
A bright red frilly poppy
A poppy is infested with tiny beetles
Poppy seed heads, ready to pop
A close-up of scurrying beetles in a poppy
A hover fly, er, hovers about around a poppy
A field of chamomile at night
The Oaksmere's walled kitchen garden
Isobel sets up a lunchtime picnic
Isobel picks a bit of surplus fruit
There's a nice flower bed in the walled garden
A sunflower with an interesting pattern
Hoverflies on a flower
Isobel takes one for the 'Gram
We head off across the 'dance floor'
We are intercepted by a free bottle of champagne
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The back road from Hoxne to Eye
The back road from Hoxne to Eye
Poppies in the verge outside Hoxne
One of Greater Anglia's new trains
There's a cool old American pick-up in Mellis
An old Chevrolet pick up
The Mellis Railway Tavern
The Yaxley Cherry Tree
An old railway bridge in Yaxley
Under a bridge on the former Mellis-Eye railway
The Old Mill at Mellis, previously Multiyork
There's a Bauhaus look on some straw bales
Judas Lane, heading off towards Mellis
Nosher's bike is abandoned for a wee stop
Part of the old mill at Mellis, with an asbestos roof
The back of the old MultiYork building
Mellis railway crossing
A bright red frilly poppy
A poppy is infested with tiny beetles
Poppy seed heads, ready to pop
A close-up of scurrying beetles in a poppy
A hover fly, er, hovers about around a poppy
A field of chamomile at night
The Oaksmere's walled kitchen garden
Isobel sets up a lunchtime picnic
Isobel picks a bit of surplus fruit
There's a nice flower bed in the walled garden
A sunflower with an interesting pattern
Hoverflies on a flower
Isobel takes one for the 'Gram
We head off across the 'dance floor'
We are intercepted by a free bottle of champagne