I had thought about going along the A roads for a look at the English countryside, but I decided instead to let the TomTom take me through Worcester so I could visit the China shop before going to Naunton. I filled up with diesel at a service station in Worcester, found out the address of Royal Worcester, and drove there. I was dismayed to find that the shop was closed as they were in the process of being incorporated into the Portmeirion Group.
I headed on to Naunton and pulled up outside Gooseberry Cottage. Mark came out and greeted me and I had a cup of tea while he put in a new downstairs sink that he had promised Ben would be ready for when he was home from Pre-School. Once it was finished, we hopped in Mark’s car and picked Ben up. He was a lot bigger than when I last saw him and his accent was delightful to listen to – a combination of Sally’s Worcester and Mark’s Chester.
Sally arrived home from being at a friend’s house and we all sat around and had a good catch up. We took a walk around the village and it was nice to see that hardly anything had changed since my last visit. After Ben had gone to bed, Mark and Sally showed me their photo album of the work they had done to their house. I hadn’t realised how poor the house was when they had bought it, as I had first seen it after a couple of years of them moving back to England. Sally was really tired at about 9:00 pm, so we all slowly tootled off to bed where I had a chance to catch up on my travel log.
