A Day in Midsomer, I mean, Liphook

I took advantage of the gorgeous bank holiday weather to visit my friend Laura in Liphook, a small-ish village in Hampshire, just beyond the Surrey border.  Aka ‘The Countryside’.  I always joked that she lives in Midsomer, setting of the popular murder based programme…which was a bit less funny after she got minorly stalked and then had a creepy experience whilst out running.  Give me the Bethnal Green ghetto any day of the week.

It IS very beautiful down there though, especially when the flowers are out the sun is shining and you’re unaware that there are snakes in the undergrowth.  After finding out about said snakes it all looked a little more life threatening to be honest.

We took a lovely walk through a snake infested (probably) wooded area to a little pub for lunch.  Loads of local produce was on offer – Hampshire makes up for a lack of London with lots of farms producing tasty pork apparently.  Amazing what you can do when you forgo  public transport etc.

We walked past a few gorgeous houses, some lakes and a statue of a man on a horse, which was pretty cool.

We then indulged in an Indiana Jones film in the evening as it turns out that being in the sun, eating a big lunch and walking about is tiring.  The fresh air and drowsy country pace may have had an effect on me too…

It’s always so nice to get away from London and out into the countryside for a breath of fresh air and a reminder that it is there, and it’s always so good to come home to the comforting concrete hustle and bustle of East London Town.