Not content with yesterday's exercise, today we walked into Repton to buy some meat. It's just over two miles of not very exciting walking (or exciting not in a good way, perhaps) as most of it is on a pavement alongside a busy road. The butchers is a smallish but very friendly retail type butcher (that is, he's buying in from a wholesaler and reselling) but with a good range. The meat looks very good, if a bit pricey.
The village itself is dominated by the school, and very interesting architecturally.
The trip back was a bit of a slog; we could have waited ten minutes and caught the bus instead, and I'd be tempted to do that next time. It goes at 15 minutes past each hour.
Alternatively, you can make a day of it by taking the bus into Burton High Street and then catching another one to Alrewas. Shop at Coates, lunch at the pub, and repeat the journey in reverse to get back.
We've been pretty quiet for the rest of the day, not unreasonably, I reckon. The paper has been read, puzzles done and a bit of crochet.
I'm expecting Elanor and Sally any time now; Elanor's bringing us some post, and stopping for dinner.
The firm designing the C&RT website is testing a beta version of it now; if you follow this link, you can take part in making the design as user friendly as possible by doing a simple quiz.
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