I overslept and finally roused myself at 9:00 am. The weather has turned wet but Andy needs to deliver some books to a bookshop in Kington and Karen needs to do some shopping for a BBQ on Saturday so we head out and wind through many country lanes to get to town. They puill over for me to take some pictures and later I visit a couple of churches. Here the churches had bell towers separate from the churches which were used as refuges when the villages were invaded by outlaws or the Welsh.
St. Mary's in Kington. This church has a ghost. The black dog of Hergest which may have inspired the story,The Hounds of the Baskervilles.
Separate bell tower and refuge yet such a graceful building.
Kington had a castle to protect the border and was named Kimgton by Harold of 1066 and the invasion of England fame.
After we return home Karen and I pick raspberries from the garden and decide to plant out some peas before there is too much more rain. The vegetable garden is huge and everything is growing lushly.
Karen shows me where the Logiston common is and a few paths for walking to the nearest town.
yummy berries! did you know bananas are berries too?
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