Friday 20 July, To Manchester via Tatton Park

In the flower pavilion

We checked out of Birdsgrove House on Friday morning at 10am. Everyone was up early to pack, clean up and get ready to hand over. We had a nice breakfast as usual, and then packed up the remaining food and drinks to take to Lesley's. We had one small breakage and Kerry's mum came to see us off. I hope we get our deposit back soon!


We planned to visit Tatton Park in Cheshire on the way back. Joan decided to give it a miss as it would be wet and muddy. She was right. We had to park in a field and there were long queues for tickets. However once inside we enjoyed looking at the huge flower pavilion, the Olympic bedding gardens, the vegetable competition and the visionary gardens. It took ages to get served at the creperie for lunch though. But I was pleased we had made the visit.

One of the Olympic beds at Tatton Park

We arrived at Lesley's in the afternoon. Joan was already there, and David and Lesley arrived home from work later.  For dinner we went to the Hideaway restaurant for a delicious meal of antipasti, lovage and potato soup, chicken Florentine with potatoes and veg, panna cotta and red wine. I stuck to water mainly.