Planet Ruby Starrs

 As I chatted on about the Ruin I thought I would add a post about a visit to another Landmark Trust building we went to in February of this year.  Every year a small group of friends meet up and enjoy the luxury of a comfortable gaff to eat, drink, be merry ,do jigsaws, some bracing walks and generally catch up and blow away post Christmas blues.  So far we have always met up in a large Landmark Trust house and this year was no exception.  We went to Shelwick Court  in Hereford.   Another amazingly grand house - rescued from total ruin - saved by the fact it for no evident reason has a medieval hall as the upstairs room.  This room was not original to the building but it is believed it must have been moved there at some point to recycle, reuse and reduce building costs - who knows - it was discovered when the building was about to be demolished because it was so derelict the owners were living in a caravan in the grounds... Each Landmark trust bu...

We got quite a shock as we headed for the ferry to go to Lanzarote for the next few days, we had to drive through Corraloje and it was massive and heaving with people even pinker then me!!!   We both realised what an oasis Tindaya had been and how even while we drove around the Island of Fuerteventura ( that’s the advert reminder thing again) we had managed to avoid any large conurbations and lulled ourselves into thinking the islands were quite unspoiled spots!!! We were so shocked by the ‘big’ town we didn’t even stop to look around – we just drove round a mad one way system – several times it felt like, and got the next ferry out. I was worried then that the place we would be stopping in Lanzarote would be like Corraloje and we felt really sorry to be leaving Tindaya behind with its braying donkey and goats in the next garden… The boat ride was wild and bumpy but we were able to sit outside – I wish I had covered my nose up, its very red now, - and we had no diffic...