We went out to lunch today, a birthday treat, which is tomorrow but I am going to the gardening club in the afternoon.
The Moors Inn was chosen at Appleton le Moor, and we lunched well, I had halibut on crushed potatoes (poor potatoes) and Paul had one of the starters with an enormous salad. It was delicious.
We sat by a roaring fire with Lucy under the table and the atmosphere quiet. Typical old pub, beams and old blackened oven over the fire.
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| taken from the Moors Inn site. |
Appleton is but a few miles from our village, one of these villages that has a wide open road with large verges think it must have been a drover's road. There is moor, though most of the land is turned to farm land but the sheep still wander around the road as you will see from the following photos.
The sheep wander around without thought, a bit like the pheasants, so slow driving is essential.
Lovely Moors village Thelma. I sometimes wonder in this sort of situation whether sheep are able to think - although one rarely sees one killed - I suppose thay would do such damage to the car that people do, luckily, drive with care.
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ReplyDeleteJust to let you know that I do know how to spell 'they' - just hit the wrong key. Then did it again so deleted.
ReplyDeleteI find spelling mistakes as well in my writing. Apparently the village is one of the best examples of a medieval (12th) laid out village, due to the local abbot.
ReplyDeleteGlad you found somewhere good to have lunch. We tried and failed in Leominster yesterday and ended up at the chippy (the alternatives were a couple of coffee and cake places). Pubs shutting at a great rate in these parts . . .
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say we have to be sheep-savvy up on the moors round here too - in the spring there are "beware the lambs" notices as the wretched things leap at bonnet-height off the heather banks at the side of the road!
Hi Jennie, I think the pubs survive round here because of the restaurant aspect and of course the tourists. Also a lot of retirees. I like those little notices of bouncing lambs, they are all over the moors.
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