Meeting Mindy

Last weekend we arranged to meet Alf and Mindy.

Unfortunately Alf's bones were a little creaky that day and he decided to stay at home and have a nice snooze in his warm house.

I was disappointed not to see him but apparently we will be meeting in the Summer.

I hadn't seen Mindy for ages, it was so nice to see her again.

We met in the village of Pilsley in Derbyshire.
It is part of the Chatsworth Estate and we started our walk from there.


We negotiated a few stiles. Taffy insisted on being carried over them but Mindy just jumped straight over.
The views were very pretty and we dragged the hoomans up and down a few hills until they decided they were thirsty.

We walked back through the village and Mindy was most interested in what was behind all the garden gates.




If these had been real birds we would all have been in that garden like a shot.


Mindy looked at me and suggested we went to the pub for a drink.
As the skies were becoming dark I thought this was an excellent idea.
We found a nice old pub and Mindy's hooman ordered some refreshments and we waited patiently for them to arrive.


Seemed to take ages, we were gasping.

When our water arrived it was served in huge gold containers, very posh and the water was cold and very refreshing.

Mindy and I settled down and fell asleep while the hoomans chatted and chatted. They were interrupted by Taffy suddenly sitting up and announcing he needed a refill.

He looked at Mindy and said.

"Whatever she had, can I have the same?"

It was obviously good stuff!



Then it was time to pose for a final photograph

before returning to the car where Taffy fell asleep! IMMEDIATELY.

Molly