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Spring Sprung

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-04-05 06:59:22 - Graham Ellis

Yesterday was a lovely Spring day ... with bright sunlight making the old clock on the side of the Church (a.k.a. the sundial) useful for once after a long and dull winter ;-). In the field and on the hillsides, white horses (of both animal and chalk varieties) added to the scene.

It feels a lot longer than ten days since we got back from the USA - a full week of training, a hotel to run, a rearrangement of staffing to cope with a sudden departure (thank goodness we ask "what if" in general terms) and a flurry of activities on both Chamber of Commerce and Rail Campaign sides. And that's quite excluding things I can't go into detail with, and a very welcome enquiry stream to handle as well. I'm loathe to say "green shoots", but I can say that the quiet winter period looks like it might have drawn to a close.

So we took yesterday as a break - a day to recharge, to look around a couple of places that we hadn't visited before. Pictures and comments will follow, and I'll update our wiki destination pages in due course ... but for the moment I have set a puzzler for some of my rail related friends which I have marked "a very tricky one?" and I want it to stay that way even for them who research and find this entry ((top marks for finding it but - sorry - I'm not telling you here!!)).

We do have some lovely countryside around - indeed I would recommend that you (if you're not from the area) make Wiltshire your destination for some days out and perhaps Well House Manor your overnight stop - love to catch up with you on any of the coming Bank Holiday weekends that are coming up as the country springs into spring!