Valley Garden

As we are invited to join our daughter and family for lunch at Ascot tomorrow, today was taken slowly. Although we woke early, it was quite late before we popped down to Morrisons for our main shop. Most important items were birthday cards for Joanna and Jess!

We returned to the boat for lunch - soup and some tasty bread.

We offered to take the two younger girls out for the afternoon but on the way over to Windsor we called at Iver Boatyard to pick up some stove rope as the sealiing around our stove door glass has perished.

Valley Garden is part of Windsor Great Park and only a few minutes drive away. Bicycle and scooter were stowed in the car and we set off. It was a wonderful, warm and sunny afternoon - we risked not taking our coats with us!

The girls enjoyed the freedom to ride and scoot as well as taken in the delightful scenery. Special signs pointed towards the daffodils which we followed - huge swathes.

We continued down towards Virgina Water and then back around to the Totem Pole. This was created in 1958 to commemorate the founding of British Columbia and stands 100 feet tall. It was carved from a single cedar tree and includes several layers of traditonal decoration.

Although there are no tea rooms in this part of the Great Park there was an ice cream van, doing brisk business. Alice described her particular choice as 'tasty'.

Time then to climb back up to the car park and return home.