Around my nearest hamlets and Country lanes

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Yesterday I took my car out on a proper run for the first time in 2 months , rather than just to the closest town for a supermarket....to give it a good clean out

I drove at 80mph for 20 miles up the motorway , and then took the old lanes back again and just drove back at around 30mph , (our lanes are just wide enough for one car ), just to enjoy the scenery in the next villages and hamlets to me.
I stopped off at our local farm shop and picked up some pistachio ice cream and dark chocolate peppermints. I took some photos of that too, the latter mainly for the non -Brits for comparison with your own , because all the Brits here know what our farm shops look like inside.. :D ... Here are the pictures I took on that journey home.. :D


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These foties look blurred to me... do they look blurred to any of you folks?...I'm wondering if it's because I had to reduce them a lot to get them on here.. and perhaps it's only me who can see it...
 
Just a quick close up of the old village green tea-room in case you couldn't see it in the earlier picture..

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Now the rest of the pictures are just a quick peek into what's for sale at our local farm shop... probably a lot smaller than those over the pond, however, just out of interest I thought you all might like to have a look inside.. much of the fresh stuff is made on the premises.. and all the fruit and veg are grown at the farm



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One thing I loved about the Aldi in the London neighborhood in which we stayed was you could buy little individual trifles in the dairy case... have looked high and low here in the states (even big cities) but to no avail. ::Trifleless in Georgia:: 🙄
 
CinnamonSugar said:
One thing I loved about the Aldi in the London neighborhood in which we stayed was you could buy little individual trifles in the dairy case... have looked high and low here in the states (even big cities) but to no avail. ::Trifleless in Georgia:: 🙄
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CS... you can buy individual trifles in all our Supermarkets , not just Aldi... :D
 
The main road through the village where I spent much of my life. The Ship & Bell was my local pub. Many English pubs were named after trades and the 'Ship&Bell' was known as a stopping off point for ships' chandlers. Beside it was Gales Brewery which brewed one of the best real ales that money could buy. After many generations in the Gale family, it was sold to a large concern who converted the brewery into luxury apartments. Before the village was bypassed, this was the main road between London and Portsmouth and the south coast. On Sundays, there would be a traffic cop (at the point where this shot was taken) directing traffic.

Ah, happy days...

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