Last week it would have been Naseeb’s 31st birthday. The weather was bright so we were fortunate enough to go to the Goyt Valley, where we walked up from Fernilee Reservoir past Errwood Hall (ruins), along the side of a long slope through patches of woods and then back along the upper ridge with its panoramic views. It’s a walk we did a number of times with Naseeb, the first time being when he was a toddler. That time we found a very cute little mouse stranded in amongst the floor cracks at Errwood Hall and together with Naseeb we managed to put the mouse somewhere safer amongst dense plant growth where it stood a chance of surviving. Naseeb always loved animals.
Back home we had tea and a tasty carrot cake that Balwant had baked.
A couple of days earlier we got out to Lyme Park and walked along some of the moorlands and then in the gardens. We spotted these unusual small cyclamen-flowered daffodils which are very distinctive growing through the grass.
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