On a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon in July...

... we were driving back home from teaching in Lincolnshire, and we decided to go through the Cotswolds - a fairly direct way home, but slower that going in the motorway.  But very much prettier, too!

We drove through a few villages and stopped for a drink and a bite in one of our favourites, Lower Slaughter (no idea of why the name...).  It has a river, many beautiful Cotswold-stone cottages, a big hotel (which used to belong to the Lords of the Manor), an old Mill with a working water-wheel, and attached little museum;  and of course, a pub!  big and with a huge garden.

Cottages

The water wheel at the Mill

Reflections in the river

Lower Slaughter Church

The pub garden

Now I'm back home and back to work!  Looking forward to going to the Festival of Quilts, 8th - 11th August, at the NEC Birmingham!

Alicia