Away from it all

It is a Bank Holiday weekend. If you want to get away from it all, including the seaside holidaymakers, turn towards the countryside where you know everything will be calm and orderly just half an hour from home.




You come to see landscapes like this looking north towards Compton Abbas airfield from near Witchampton, not all that far from Wimborne.







Or, the places you come upon by chance which no-one seems to have discovered; certainly not this morning.







If you are going to keep a home in the country you may as well do things properly, especially the flower beds down the garden path that will be the first thing to impress the visitors.





Of course, you could go the whole hog and buy a decent house. This is Crichel House at Moor Crichel, somewhere at the end of the flowery drive.  I didn't take this picture because you can't see it from the road.
I missed the chance to buy it: an American billionaire acquired it a couple of years ago for a reputed £100 milllion.






To really get away from it all you have to find yourself a traffic free narrow road: like this.

And you can park in peace and quiet and enjoy your thermos of coffee and chocolate biscuits feeling you have gone back in time.







Suddenly you know you have.

From nowhere comes a horde of racing ladies of years gone by  -  with cars to match"!

Even when the last one is heading into the distance it is a job to believe what you have just seen.







What is the correct expression for a horde of Austin Sevens  -  a clutch?