Are we there yet? Are you getting up yet ? We have a long ride ahead of us We felt a bit awkward this morning trying to put off telling Sion that we were not there yet nor were we going to have a long ride ahead of us . We had avoided the awkward discussion with the sheep about the intended trip to France . Phone calls to Eurotunnel had been done under cover of darkness when little ears were not tab hanging . We did not want to disappoint Sion but there was no way around this one . We knew we were going to have one very unhappy sheep.
By 6.00 we should have been on the road heading around the M25 to Kent to pick up the train to travel to France . We were disappointed that we had to cancel the trip yet again and were not quite sure how Sion was going to take it . We had to soften the blow somehow . Bacon butty and a coffee Sion ? Well I suppose so . I love a bacon butty to be fair It will break the journey
to Kent anyway wont it? I broke the news gently . Covid had got in the way of a holiday yet again . We were not going anywhere today . What !!!! I am fed up of Covid We have cancelled three holidays now . Its not fair No Sion you are right there . Gabby is unused and we have had to cancel all those trips . There does not seem much light at the end of the tunnel . We have a ticket on hold and have to use it before March 2022. I just wish Covid would go away . Me too bleated the sheep .
Sadly he packed away his belongings muttering how unfair it all was . We had to do something to cheer him up so I mentioned the coffee and bacon butty again . That did cheer him up slightly although it was a poor consolation prize considering his holiday had been snatched yet again from under his nose . He had had plans . Probably better plans than ours and yet again everything was on hold .
headed for Holt . We are off to see a castle Sion . That cheered him up. That and the fact that he was hoping to see his best friend Woolly sometime this month . As long as Covid does not put paid to that one !!! Sitting in the back Sion told us he was looking forward to seeing the castle . He does like a good castle with battlements and a portcullis . The worry now was that the castle we were off to see had none of those . It had been slighted and little was left . Im off to see a castle I hope it is impressive I wasnt sure whether to warn Sion that the castle was in a bit of a sorry state . We drove to Holt on the English Welsh border . The river Dee which flows past our home flows onwards to Holt and passes under another medieval bridge . We parked first of all at Bellis fruit farm . I remembered the farm from the 1960s when everyone spent the summer walking from Wrexham to work on the farm picking strawberries . School kids in the holidays
went there and did the back breaking work on hand picking the fruit for a small wage and as many strawberries as they could eat . Sounds pretty good to me I wouldnt ming being paid to eat strawberries I warned Sion that after a while he would be sick to the back teeth of strawberries after eating so many. We arrived at Belliss farm shop and found the car park looking a lot busier than we expected .Where is the castle ? This does not look like a castle to me We herd the Sion into the garden centre . It had grown since the last time I came here. Full of smelly things to buy for Christmas , aprons, garden products and then there was the nursery . We picked up a Lavender, two Lupins and a Delphinium and put them aside until we had our breakfast .
Bacon butty for me shouted our little friend . A doorstop piece of toast for me and another bacon butty for the driver . Sion as always devoured his bacon butty very quickly , brown sauce everywhere .
