Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 April 2011

A Quintessentially English scene . . .

What could be more English than this? A sunny Sunday afternoon, taking tea in a little teashop opposite the village green. I can't think of a better way to spend a few hours in between morning Mass and Rosary and Benediction in the afternoon. Certainly not ironing, or weeding, the other two activities on offer!
A couple of weeks later and the view from the window might have included a game of cricket on the green. A very short boundary here so plenty of high scoring matches - and wet cricket balls as the ball is smashed into the boundary stream.

It really is an idyllic scene. One pretty village after another in this part of Surrey.

The tea shop which is also the local shop was doing a roaring trade in fishing nets sold to the crowds of youngsters who had come to picnic with their families and fish for 'tiddlers' in the stream.