A bit on the quiet side today.
Good nights training at the gym tonight, a couple of contest nights involving about ten of our lads coming up this month, 17th and 24th respectively.
I like to see how some of the villages and places we visit keep so much splendour in a real 'British' mode, it makes for a much better day in the overall sense of our existence I'm tempted to think.
I was looking at the private type of courtyard at the rear of these cottages, overlooking the River Sett in the really beautiful village of Hayfield and thinking how perfect a balmy summers evening would reflect perfection in all that is British in such an ideal location.
It was all rather spectacular in a general manner, so to speak.
The Village Church was attractive as well.
It's rather peculiar as well how things are changing throughout the Western World with the government bail out of the banking industry.
You might be tempted to say, we are introducing a special form of Democratic Communism.
Interest rates dropping as well.
Doesn't matter though. the third rock from the sun is still intact and turning on it's axis. Why worry about the condiments in life.
Getting back to the Church at Hayfield.
I found this on The Net:-
Transcription:
" Hayfield Church was all torn up, and the dead bodies swept out of their graves; when the flood abated they were found in many places. Some were hanging on trees, others left in meadows or grounds, some partly eaten by dogs, or wanting one or more of their members."
I thought I'd better put the link on here it makes for interesting reading and takes thoughts away from strawberries and cream or afternoon tea with hot buttered scones and home made jam.
Be sure to click on the images at the top of each page, it makes for some very good and interesting reading.
Birth of Hayfield Parish Church This transcription of a 1909 History of Hayfield Parish Church was made by members of the: Hayfield Historical Archive Group from the original document : ... www.virtualparish.net/HC1909-06.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
There's another link here as well. Good and very informative.
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Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District Hayfield sits peacefully in the narrow valley of the Sett surrounded by some of the wildest and most beautiful scenery in the Peak District. Discover Derbyshire and the Peak Districthayfield.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages 
If you follow the River Sett to the left hand side of this photograph you can see it drops rather abruptly over a weir.
It was a very attractive feature:-
You wouldn't want to be dropping off there on a big inner tube for instance.
Those Ducks must be quackers playing about near that edge though!
It's a fair old drop.