We have had a marvellous day out - and yes, I did take 122 photos! But don't worry, I'm not going to share all of them with you today!
Our first stop was at Flodden, scene of a great battle between the Scots and the English, which you can read about here, here and here. In the bright sunshine, there was no sense of the dreadful happenings of that day, when so many Scots died
From the monument, there are wonderful views, including the small village of Branxton, round which the battle was fought
This isn't a very good photo, as the car was bouncing about on the bumpy road, but if you look carefully at the curved roof on the porch of the house on the left, you will see that it is covered in grass!
Our next stop was the village of Ford, where we had a browse round the Horseshoe Gallery
I wonder if anyone will build a house to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, as this was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's
The church looked lovely in the spring sunshine, surrounded by a carpet of daffodils
This gargoyle was keeping an eye on me!
Having taken some photos, I used these stone steps to climb over the wall .......
........ rather than open the rather grand gate (I had entered the churchyard by a small gate)
I had to wait until this rather large tractor went past before I could cross the road to rejoin Malcolm, who had gone to investigate a possible place for lunch
We had hoped to have our lunch here , but unfortunately the couple who own the coffee shop were unable to be there today. However a man who was working in the antiques building let us have a peek
The coffee shop looked lovely, and we will certainly go back. We headed off to Heatherslaw Mill
where we enjoyed a delicious lunch. We both decided to have a stottie (a large roll) ...... I had Coronation chicken
and Malcolm had corn beef and onion
The visitor centre was proudly flying the Northumberland flag
After a busy morning, we had an even busier afternoon - I'll tell you about it tomorrow!