NB Fruit of The Vine: Sweet Honeystreet

After yesterday's marathon we did not rise until 8:15 this morning. The plan was to motor the few miles to the village of All Cannings and Dianne would go off to the Communty shop to stock up with essentials including cough medicine for the both of us to try to sooth the ailment we have had since being in Bristol.
Keith made good of the time by washing the dusty roof and one side of the boat. During this time we were visited by a three legged, tailless cat who insisted on coming aboard and curling up on the circular rug in the saloon. Eventually it hopped off our stern onto the stern of the boat moored behind. It was soon shooed off by the resident dog though! Ever seen a three legged cat run?
By this time it was passed midday so we pressed on to the hamlet of Honeystreet as featured on BBC1's Village SOS in 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013gjkt
It is also the home of crop circles.
It didn't take much persuasion to decide to take in an ale and abandon the rest of the day's plan! We booked in for dinner tonight at the famous Barge Inn and then got the Bromptons out and cycled to the nearby church at Alton Barnes. St Mary the Virgin is a Saxon church that still displays many of its original features alongside 17C additions (a triple decker pulpit and a gallery etc).
This is still an active church but in nearby Alton Priors we visited a redundant Norman church with a 1700 year old yew tree in the churchyard.
On the return journey we spotted many chocolate box thatched cottages, gypsy caravans and a really old thatched barn all of which looked as though time had stood still.