I nearly titled the blog where have you been? We had three days in the Warwickshire countryside as a short break. Had a lovely time visiting the gallery at Compton Verney, National Trust properties of Baddersley Clinton and Packwood House (picture of the Wisteria on the house below.). We finished up at the idiosyncratic Sezincote (A picture of the House below) near Moreton in the Marsh . The gardens were all different and with the good weather we made the most of them. Clare and I then separated she caught a train home while I hurtled across the country for a date at the Theatre of Dreams better known as Kenilworth Road for the Championship Football Play Off Semi-Final.

The match was tense and a draw was a fair result and the second leg is on Monday night-sadly I won’t be going because I have a game of cricket on Tuesday with an early start. During the match and subsequently afterwards I got many messages saying a sad old man had popped up on the TV broadcast of the match. so I was besieged with pictures of him! His picture is below!