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Last weekend when it was the Bank Holiday weekend we decided to go out for a picnic on the Sunday and what a day it was, such a beautifully sunny & warm day, such a difference from most of the summer we have been having!



James decided he would be in charge of the food and made us our favourite ~ bacon & brie for him and cranberry & brie for me all wrapped up in delicious crusty french bread, and with a flask of tea and some plain chocolate digestives in our basket off we went.

We didn't know where we were going and just set of to see where the day would take us and after some driving around we came across this wonderfully beautiful English village that we had never been to before called Barningham.



All these photos are taken in the same village and look a green telephone box, how fab is that!?!



It was outside of this cottage which obviously used to be the post office too, I'm afraid I couldn't resist taking a sneaky shot of this lovely window sign.



The village had this wonderful fountain too which worked, either side water flowed and in the middle was a big pool of water, so pretty with the sun shining on it and twinkling.




And not satisfied with a green telephone box and a fountain this village also had it's own stone circle!



I had to take this lovely photo of the apple tree with its branches heavy with fat juicy apples, ready to drop.



This was the village pub at the end of the village, isn't it just a wonderfully typical English village scene. The photo at the top was a closeup of the pub and its wonderful display of Holly Hocks, they were so pretty and vibrant.



We had had our picnic just outside the village over looking fields and the Yorkshire Dales, oh and of course sheep before we heading back in to the village to explore on foot.

There seemed to be a lot of coming and going as we walked around the village and then we realised people were carrying gifts and making their way to the village hall ~ we had noticed a banner on the outside wishing Ann a happy 60th birthday so it seemed that the whole village was off for an afternoon of gift giving and jolly making ~ so lovely.
We couldn't believe we live so near to this pretty village and yet have never been before!

We topped our day off by heading through Barnard Castle then Cotherstone and on to Middleton-in-Teesdale and I even managed to fit in a touch of thrifting before the day was over ~ I managed to pick up a silver plated candlestick holder for only 50p, which I had ideas for ~ but I will leave that for another post!