Ayot St Lawrence

I am unable to cycle at the moment because of heavy snowfalls so I will show you a couple of photographs  I have taken of the village of Ayot St Lawrence, which is just 4 miles from where I live. It was the home of George Bernard Shaw the playwright until 1950 and his house is now owned by the National Trust and is named Shaw's Corner.  One of the features is a hut in the garden which can be revolved to enable GBS, as he was known to get maximum light from the sun. The church is disused and a more recent one stands in a meadow quite nearby.

A couple of wintry scenes

I see by my stats that there are some bloggers who live in parts of the world where they don't get any snow so I have put a couple for them to see. Apologies to English, Scottish and Irish people who have seen too much snow.

A Horsey Tale

This morning, riding along a quiet country lane, I was confronted by a riderless runaway horse. I had to make up my mind whether to stop it or avoid it. The horse, being much bigger than me, I decided to avoid it. It went by at considerable speed, followed by a young lady calling out the horse's name which, by the way, was Jack. Jack took no notice and went on its way, the young lady, eventually running out of breath, gave up the pursuit. She was followed some moments later by the lady who had fallen off. All ended well, however as the horse (Jack) found its way to its stable on his own, the lady who parted company with Jack, apart from a smattering of mud on her clothes, was unharmed, and the young lady who was in hot pursuit will probably be in the running for a place in the Olympic 100 metres event. With that peace descended on the Hertfordshire lanes and on a pleasant sunny morning I completed a nice 12 mile ride home.

The Inuit man with reindeer

It is very cold in the UK at the moment so pity this Inuit man with his reindeer at Norway's North Cape that I visited earlier this year. The scenery was wonderful though.