Tuesday 6 January 2015
07:30 before Hayden woke up – he must have been so
tired; even so he is still rather grumpy.
I took myself for a run around Sheffield – I always
feel so much more oriented once I have been for a run in an unfamiliar
place. Sheffield, while small, has great
undulating training hills and no traffic!
Today we hit the roads and Drew got to try out the
new car – apparently it has “flappy paddles”, I had never heard of them but I
am assured by both Hayden and Drew that this is an excellent feature and that I am
truly ignorant by not having knowledge of it.
Drew really likes the car!
While we were driving we saw multiple jet streams
which appeared to go straight up, like a rocket, due to the viewing angle
compared to the Earth’s curvature – presumably Planes heading to the mainland.
Stop one was the Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm
Café – in all honesty this was very disappointing as it was just a café,
with no picking or viewing of the farm available, which is what we were really
interested in. Bonus though – across
the road was the Van Diemen’s Land Ice Creamery. Hayden had Raspberry Sorbet and Lemon Sorbet,
I had Rum’n’Raisin Ice-cream and Chocolate Gelato. All were absolutely delicious!!!
Stop two Ashgrove Cheese- my favourite was their
Smoked Cheddar, followed by the Red Leicester style cheese called Red
Rubicon. Watching the making of the
cheese was interesting and we could also view the storage areas. Ashgrove Cheese had the most amazing
collection of painted cows throughout the grounds; Hayden and I both loved them
and took many photos. There was even a
cow in the colours of rainbow swirl ice-cream – she must be the one they milk
to make it!!
Stop three The Cherry Shed – beautiful fresh
cherries and every sort of cherry themed item you can imagine! Here I discovered that I prefer the “Van”
cherry over the sweeter and more popular “Lapins” cherry. Of course, we bought
some for the road. They had an interesting
display of the growing through to harvest process done with tiny figurines
including a number of tiny animals to find in each scene.
Stop four House of Anvers – boutique chocolate, in
particular fudges and truffles. They had an interesting collection of antique
boxes and moulds. Once again, we were
able to view the factory process through glass windows – we saw them making
Chilli, Cinnamon and Cacao Chocolate as well as some type of filled chocolates.
Stop five Devonport for a late lunch and grocery
supplies for the week ahead.
In the late afternoon we went to the mural park in
Sheffield for a look around – some amazing painting, some with a lot of depth
of thought in the layers of meaning.
