13th of October, 2025 - Lincoln

Happy 18th Anniversary Ian! Thank you for encouraging me not to sacrifice anything on this trip and to still be away enjoying myself on our anniversary. I promise we'll go out for dinner and do something celebratory when I'm home next week. Love you honey xx.

In other news - Lovely Lincoln today on my Tour of England's many, many (many, many, many!) Cathedrals. It's darker and has its own personality from the others I've seen. It's very atmospheric and just feels a lovely space to be in. Alistair was our guide today and he clearly loves his Cathedral just so very much - it was gorgeous! It's another one that is built on top of Roman, Norman and bits of Saxon ruins. It's amazing to see the footings of a Roman pillar and imagine what the site looked like when the people who built that were here. The connection to history going back a thousand years, in some places even more, is incomprehensible to me.




The 10 sided Chapter House is particularly beautiful

The scale of the Cathedrals is incredible. How on earth these buildings are so incredibly immense from a time when engineers weren't a thing is mind blowing. Apparently each pillar in Lincoln Cathedral can support 14,000 tonnes of weight. Wow.



The city of Lincoln itself is smaller than I had thought it would be, which made it easy to get around, although extremely, incredibly, massively steep in its hilly-ness, which did not.

It was just lovely to wake up on a farm, with mist covering the green grass, rabbits playing under a tree, two squirrels chasing each other round and round a tree trunk and two tiny little birds - not robins, but no idea what they were - fighting over a fallen acorn. a) why are birds trying to eat acorns? and b) look around fellas, there's too many acorns even for the squirrels, you don't need to yell at each other.


The horses all standing in the mist wearing their coats and huffing steam-breath was so cute and it's nice to have a chance to wear at least some of the jumpers I went crazy buying when I was cold one day last week.

I had a look through Lincoln Castle (little and not as impressive as their Cathedral), although it did have a dragon living in its walls which, I THINK was supposed to be growling, but actually just sounded like it was farting - maybe I needed to get closer -


and then rode a bus around for an hour just for the hell of it because I wanted to see more of Lincoln but didn't want to walk down any more hills that I would then have to walk back up to get back to the car.

I'm now snuggled in at my accommodation, Bruce has lit me a fire and I have a cup of tea. Life is very, very good. Love to everyone. I'll see you all very soon! ♥


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