{"id":1407,"date":"2013-08-23T20:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2013-08-25T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:33:28","slug":"staycation-grand-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/23\/staycation-grand-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Grand Day Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>22.08.2013<br \/>\nWhat a lovely day I had today, with nothing planned and a promise of mixed weather, we set off to Morecambe to collect my winnings, not a lump sum, sadly but a novel written by a local author, and offered as a competition prize in my local newspaper. Having collected it and noting that the clouds had rolled back, the sun was shining and the tide was high, we drove north along the promenade looking for a suitable place for lunch. We turned off the coastal road and headed for the shore at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbankfarm.co.uk\" title=\"Red Bank Farm\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bank Farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5550.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1410\" alt=\"date stone, Red Bank Farm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5550.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5550.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5550-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">date stone, Red Bank Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbankfarm.co.uk\" title=\"Red Bank Farm Morecambe\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bank Farm<\/a> has a very enviable setting being sited at the very point where the sea meets the land, any further west and it would be in the sea. A High bank protects the land from being encroached upon, I guess when the Farm house was built perhaps the sea was not so close, but then the date stone over the door says 1680, so Red Bank farm has weathered many a storm since it was built.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5546.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1412\" alt=\"So close to the Sea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5546-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5546-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5546.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So close to the Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My Dearest had a Bacon Buttie, no change there then, and I had a baked potato, butter and salad, being on the Hay diet limits my choices as I don\u2019t eat protein at lunchtime, still I could have just had a bowl of chips, I restrained myself. They did look good though, thick cut and crisp cooked with the skin on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1413\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5552.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1413\" alt=\"ancient steps on a right of way\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5552-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5552-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5552.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ancient steps on a right of way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A footpath passes behind the farm house, right on the edge of the beach, ancient steps form a style between the building and the wall which borders the property.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1415\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5555.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1415\" alt=\"dappled sunshine on a country road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5555.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5555.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5555-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">dappled sunshine on a country road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We drove on to Silverdale, a place of outstanding Natural Beauty, visited a little gallery we know and then on to Jack Scout for a walk, the sun was very hot and the day humid, so we did not walk far before my Dearest wanted to turn back. I snatched a couple of pictures near the cliff edge looking up the Kent Estuary towards Arnside.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1416\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5560.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1416\" alt=\"Jack Scout, Kent estuary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5560.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5560.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5560-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Scout, Kent estuary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not wanting to set off home just yet we turned the car northwards up the A6, a route we had taken several times already this week, but stopped at Beetham, it\u2019s one of those villages which is by-passed by the road and so is rarely seen or investigated by passing traffic but I knew there was a Pub the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheatsheafbeetham.com\/\" title=\"Good Pub\" target=\"_blank\">Wheatsheaf<\/a>, which had been recommended to me for good food, so we stopped to check out the menu.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1417\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1417\" alt=\"stocks, now where are those rotten tomatoes?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5570.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5570.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5570-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">stocks, now where are those rotten tomatoes?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What a charming little village, with fine old houses, a set of stocks on the green, a good pub, a beautiful church (The Church of St Michael and All Angels, parts of which date from the 12th century) , it still boasts a Post Office and general store, but more than that it has its own theatre! ( The Heron Theatre, a 80 seat theatre housed in the listed 18th century grammar school ) I believe the village has its own amateur theatre group, who put on productions, and it is otherwise used as cinema, \u201cQuartet\u201d is showing this weekend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5579.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411\" alt=\"St Michael and all Angels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5579.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5579.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1-IMG_5579-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Michael and all Angels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is apparently The Heron Corn Mill, a working watermill, which we did not investigate. We went home via Morecambe again to walk on the promenade, and enjoy the cool sea breeze. Whilst promenading we saw a BBC news team about to record a piece live for that evening\u2019s news, we didn\u2019t stay to find out what it was to be; given the lateness of the hour, and having left the 13 year old alone all day, we decided it was time to go home and feed him.<br \/>\nThe day had been unexpectedly sunny, almost cloudless and very warm, we even got to sit in the garden till it went dark, and then the rain which had been promised but which we thought we had escaped, came down suddenly in great big drops and soaked us as we ran across the garden from the terrace to the back door, if only it would always rain through the night, and allow us clear skies during the day.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noting that the clouds had rolled back, the sun was shining and the tide was high, we drove north  looking for a suitable place for lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,222,4,1],"tags":[502,504,497,499,978,498,500,494,282,506,496,503,501,505,495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}