One of the routes we used to take in our “you can walk for up to an hour” strolls during lockdown was round parts of the Garendon Estate. Since then the house building plans have moved on and so there are now several estates were we can look round and truthfully say “I remember when this was all fields”. They are also growing at a pace. This afternoon Jane and I were out for a walk on the Garendon Park estate off the A6 to deliver leaflets of December events for Hathern Baptist and the 100+ flyers I’d picked up turned out to be short. We’ll go back for the remaining 40 or so houses this week but, next time we have something to take round the “new estate” it looks like we’ll be needing another 50-100 on top as a new section appears to be close to having people move in.

We do have some local fields left but not as many as when we moved up here!