Fishing for Carp

I decided to have a few hours fishing before we left and moved the van down to the lake. It was a lovely day and a very nice lake with some big carp. I only landed one small roach but lost a big carp diving into the reeds. I was not alone in having a blank day and spent most of the time trying to stop a very smart chicken from stealing my bait. I didn't realise chickens went mad for Spam!

We packed up about 4pm, stopped at Whitchurch for coffee and cake and arrived home at 7:30.

Speech House Food Festival

We parked the van at Speech House and used our pre-booked tickets to walk straight in to the festival which was even bigger than last year. It is now mostly food and drink from local businesses and we were spoilt for choice picking something for lunch. 

We had pulled pork tacos which were delicious, bought some cheese and were given some apples and cake (which we had with coffee in the car park).

We were hoping to have a homemade  pizza from the bar when we returned but the last orders are at lunch time Sunday.

We were almost on our own by the time we returned.

Forest of Dean

We are going to the Forest Festival at Speech House again and are stopping 2 nights at Broadstone Park. It's a quirky site right on the England Wales boundary with a fishing lake and a lot of rescue animals including a turkey, donkey, Shetland pony and lots of chickens. We pitched in the Wales field but the facilities are in England and electricity is metered.