On Sunday we went to Tring Apple Day at Jeacocks Orchard. This is a low key day out, where amongst other things you can buy lots of lovely apples (which I failed to take a photo of), have a go at making apple juice, watch spinning, and new for this year, watch ploughing with Shire horses.
They were only ploughing short strips and it took as long to turn the horses around as it did to do the ploughing. Presumably when fields were ploughed like this for real, the strips were much longer.
After the Apple Day we went for a walk around the nearby Wilstone reservoir. It was all very pretty and autumnal.
Surprisingly the kids managed to go the whole way round without (much) moaning. This was our 3rd consecutive Sunday of going for a walk and it is getting easier. Of course we don't just go for a walk, we generally have to be playing some sort of game on the way round. This week it was trains, with Thomas being the engine and Hannah organising the positioning of the carriages (myself and Anthony of course!)
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