Blooms and Bikers

River Barn, near Malmesbury, is a three and a half acre riverside garden set around part of a former model farm.

Within the garden were some interesting ornaments

 














and willow sculptures

On leaving, just down the path, was a footpath by the river which then cut off across the fields. Ready for a stretch of the legs we set off. Eventually we came to a side road that led us onto the Malmesbury to Wootton Basset road where we were met with a cacophony of engine roar and and hooters. The road was just packed with bikers. No exaggeration must have been a coupla miles long - took nearly half an hour to pass (much to the chagrin of those motorists stuck on the feeder roads). Apparently a young woman biker, Elizabeth Stevens was planning a sponsored 'Ride of Respect' past the war memorial in Wooton with a few friends for 'Help the Heroes'. It took off on social media and on the day around 10,000 bikers + 5,000 pillions turned up :-0 Police had to escort them in cohorts of 500 down the route. As I've always said you never know what your going to come across when you get out there in the open air ;)