Monday 29 August 2016

Back from the Sick

Aploogies for the absence, but literally while on my bicycle ride to work on Friday I started to feel very ill, and in the end was sent home with some form of norovirus or other bug.

Heaven only knows how I managed the ride home, but I did, then had a really nasty day feeling terrible and my body doing terrible things. Luckily, it was only a 24 and a bit hour virus, and I was able to go into town for supplies by Saturday afternoon, but I was very annoyed at missing a game of cricket on Saturday.

Luckily I was able to masquerade as a father for the "Lads versus Dads" match the next day, which was a lot of fun, and today, I found myself doing a reconaissance of the route I've worked out for a charity cycle ride I'm arranging with work.

To be honest, I didn't feel up to it at all, but I needed to get it sorted out before the event.

So, I found myself out and about on a lovely day, making my way through the cricketing villages of South Notts - Car Colston, Flintham, Syerston etc - with all their churches, and village greens grazed by animals, and wildflower meadows.

The most bizarre sights, however, were at Screveton, a village I've never seen in my life, where cycling towards FLintham, I was suddenly confronted with a giant green statue of a woman doing something "farmy".

There seems to be a few of these in these fields, made of a substance akin to, butchers grass and a handy information board was in place to tell the visitor about them.




In virtually the same place, was a memorial for the crews of two aircraft that crashed into each other during World War 2. There were a lot of incidents around here, as a lot of airfields in the area were involved in training and heavy bomber conversions. This was one of the worst, however.



In the end, I did nearly 40km, and saw more village signposts than I ever have in my life.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 30.08.16



5 comments:

  1. So sorry to hear you haven't been well Simon - hope you are fully recovered soon.

    An interesting post with lots to see - do like the "green woman statue" .

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  2. Thank you very much Robin, it was great to be out and about again despite being a little off colour still

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  3. So pleased you are recovering Si. I have been six weeks shaking off my viral infection - perhaps something to do with age I suspect.

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  4. Hiya, I've still been ill, turns out the first lot has weakened my immune system and I've got a cold already

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  5. Hi Si, I'm a little late in posting but I do hope you recover soon from the cold. Flipping annoying to be ill straight after already being ill! Loved the green statue doing farmy things ;o) and interesting to hear about the aircraft work & collisions. Take care!

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