Off the Beaten Track

Sunday

We went for a walk in Nuthurst, suggested by daddy. We haven't done this walk since Bean was a baby in a sling. I think daddy remembered that we used to stop at the village pub and have dessert. We planned on doing the same walk through the farms and over the fields but it turned out that Bean and Pumpkin had other ideas.


We parked on the roadside and had to walk back a little to the start of the walk. We walked past the local Parish Church and Bean asked if it was open. It was so we went in for a look around. It had some beautiful artefacts and windows and prayer cushions and a Saxon font. Mostly the boys wanted to play trains as the pews still had the doors on them.They took turns being the fireman and the driver with lots of actions and steam train noises. 


We found this stain glass window which shows the presentation of Jesus at the temple. The lady kneeling down is the prophetess Anna, who our lovely daughter is named after. 


We spent some time exploring the grave yard too which involved Bean showing us how to be dead and Pumpkin being Jesus on the cross! We saw lots of different stones and memorials and the boys picked some of the daisies to put in the flower pots on the graves.

At this point we still intended on doing our planned walk but we became distracted a second time and found an architectural garden centre which also led to one of the studios on the Horsham art trail. The garden centre was closed but fabulous to look at and the boys enjoyed running around the bamboo. The art studio was a linen workshop where the lady weaves her own linens. They also had a small display of acrylic artwork. She was a lovely lady who took time to show us how the small loom works and let the children have a turn too. Pumpkin was particularly taken by the painting below, a boat on the river.

We abandoned the idea of our original walk at this point as we had had to walk quite a way to the workshop but we still managed to stop for dessert!