There I wanted to gather three more Geograph photo squares to add my current tally of 19,002 photographs contributed. The diversion would not take me very long - about forty five minutes and then I would be back on the road, heading home for chicken curry making responsibilities. There would be just a bit of walking to do.
Saltmarshe is a remote East Yorkshire village which you reach along narrow lanes. There are only about twelve houses there, two farms and a grand Georgian "hall" that was once the home of the Saltmarshe family who could trace their history right back to the Norman Conquest.
Saltmarshe Hall is now a wedding venue. In fact, my best friend Tony's youngest daughter was married there in 2018. I wrote about it here.
In that peaceful riverside settlement, off the beaten track, I successfully nailed my desired squares as the three photo-illustrations that accompany this blogpost show.
As I walked past Saltmarshe Hall, I noticed that there was a wedding reception in progress. In the garden there was a little ice cream stand, no doubt ordered by the happy couple. Cheekily, I wandered through the gap in the hedge and asked the ice cream lady if I might have a cone as I was gasping for something.
Kindly, she agreed. We had a nice little chat and though she said I need not pay anything for my rum and raisin cornet, I gave her three pound coins - suggesting they could be slotted into her grandchildren's piggy banks. Whereupon she revealed that she was not only childless but she had "lost" her husband to cancer last year. "Well put it into your own piggy bank then, " I said. "Add it to your next holiday fund".
She was a nice lady and I am sure I could have conversed with her for hours. Sometimes you just "click" with people. She was also a Hull City supporter and was delighted to hear that we had made the play-offs yesterday afternoon.
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