We start the day with work. Yep, weekday number one and Hubby has a meeting that can’t be rearranged. Meanwhile I catch up with a load of emails and supervise my apprentice's long-term project for a couple of hours.
Eventually I get to willingly drive to Tesco - unheard of I know, but we’re only parking in Tesco’s car park, then we’re off West-bound on the Trans Pennine Way. Committed readers will know the TPW is right alongside Penistone Tesco so within minutes we’re once again walking on a disused railway track.
Although only a few mile outside Penistone, we're in the Peak District
National Park, and walking in the fog is wonderfully peaceful, especially as hardly
anyone else is around, perhaps because it's only 3 degrees above freezing.
The history is amazing - the track was used from 1845 to 1981, during which the Sheffield to Manchester route up to 100 trains each way each day. The Hazelhead Station was seven lines wide in its hay-day of 1928. Flouch Inn and roundabout are just about visible in the distance.
Since the closure of the line, and it's re-birth as part of the Trans Pennine Way it has been developed in many ways from the wayside wood carvings to child-friendly Magic Woods.
Having done ten miles we're home for a late lunch of Scotch Broth, then it's a few more emails, fix a mistake I made with scheduling on Sunday, and we settle down to watch an afternoon film - Zodiac - which was really good despite the ending, but I guess real-life doesn't always end like it's in the movies?
The next high-light was the arrival of our piano tuner! Our dear old girl is over 160 years old so she does need a lot of attention, but it's money well-spent.
Whilst Mr Tordoff is at work I'm prepping for dinner, a ballotine of chicken. Freeze Boursin sausages, flatten some breasts, make into Palma ham covered rolls and vacuum seal before popping in the bath for an hour. As I needed wine for my jus, it was decided that canapés and Chardonnay were required to complete the cooking!
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