Having adjusted to the time, we boarded a midday train from King’s Cross Station.
We headed north (Peterborough, York, Darlington, Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed) to visit family in a beautiful valley in Northumberland, near the Scottish border. Our niece and her husband live in a family compound with her parents, Richard’s brother Mike and sister-in-law Enid. It was a special time, filled with long walks and good talks, excellent meals and fine wines, needlepoint lessons, and vicious cribbage matches.
New greenhouse
Alison and her husband, Ray, are master gardeners, who maintain an orchard, cane fruit and strawberry beds, an asparagus bed, another greenhouse, and several hoop houses to extend the season and raise tomatoes and other warm weather vegetables.
Wine in Northumberland?
Alison, who excels at whatever she turns her hand to, now produces all their wine.
Who are ewe?
She kept a steady eye on us, baaing all the time.
Finally, her naughty lambs scrambled up from the ravine and ran to mum.
