Derbyshire 29 - Bakewell, Haddon Hall, naughty gargoyles, long borders and ancient chapels
July 27th 2016 There is a chinese proverb that says that you should be not afraid of growing slowly , you should be more afraid of standing still. So today was a day of not standing still.
Where shall we go? We needed somewhere fairly close. We needed somewhere we had not been to before. That is getting harder and harder as we exhaust places that are within travelling distance of home. So it was that we took
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