Bignor Park Once More

The first wedding anniversary of maytrees min was a good excuse to visit her lovely wedding venue in Bignor Park and to enjoy the biennial fete in the grounds put on by local people.

Maytrees min drove us down and mrs maytrees and I stayed overnight at a pub in a village nearby oddly named "Roundabout". Indeed the pub too was named the Roundabout Hotel in similar fashion:

There were other guests staying at the pub including for some reason a contingent of Chinese tourists who I believe were to take a long walk over the South Downs. 

Returning to Bignor Park was a delight and I took a couple of photographs depicting not only maytrees min and her husband but her mother in law and my younger brother and his wife who we met there only briefly as they were about to return to their home in Guildford from whence they had driven down.

The events at the fete were entertaining and colourful; for example:

Later, maytrees min, her husband Johnny, his mother Sheila (her husband a local farmer with whom we had had lunch previously had sadly died a year or so earlier  before the wedding) mrs maytrees and I,  met  for a great  supper together, at the Roundabout Pub. 

The next day, a long pre-breakfast walk in a nearby forest beckoned. The walk was enjoyable but a difficulty about the countryside can be that of local roads having no pavements, or as Americans might say "sidewalks" but that was fine at the early hour and of course was no problem after turning off the streets onto the forest paths. Despite rain in the days before our visit, walking in the woods and along nearby footpaths, was not too muddy or difficult and I reurned to the pub refreshed and in time for breakfast with mrs maytrees.

A couple of hours afterwards, we joined maytrees min and Johnny for coffee at a nearby vinyard, after which we had a lunch together with  Sheila, a short distance away  at the family farm,  before eventually driving home to SW20.