I decided yesterday that I wouldn’t drive to Cheltenham for the Festival event I was attending so I cycled there-it saves all the parking faff! My round trip was 43 miles including going up Leckhampton Hill on the way back – the bonus was flying down the Slad Valley at 35 mph not quite like Laurie Lee’s Mother in Cider with Rosie! After that I thought I would give cycling a miss when I went to Wick Court for my Story Telling!

Talking of Story Telling I have a number of gigs at Gloucestershire Libraries coming up around Halloween for audiences of 9+ but there are two adult ones as well. Hope you or a young person you know can make one of them. All events are on the Gloucester Library Web Site with details of how to book but here are the dates

23rd – Matson – 4.45p.m.   9+     Tues 24th – Tuffley – 6pm  adults      Fri 27th Up Hatherley – 5.30 pm adults    Mon 30th – Longlevens 3 pm 9+                                     Tues 31st Wotton 11 am 9+    Dursley 2pm 9+

Finally a picture to make you smile a Shoveler Duck I photographed recently!