Lincolnshire 2022 Day 2

Today we drove over to Skegness to see their seal sanctuary. It is more of a mini zoo with a collection of other animals including penguins, reptiles, butterflies, goats and an aquarium. I will admit to a fondness for seals. Their rotund forms and tendency to laze about waiting for the next meal appeals to me! Overall it was worth the entrance fee and the lunch we had in their cafe was perfectly acceptable for such an establishment. It wasn’t

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Lincolnshire 2022 Day 1

The first day of our short break in Baumber, Lincolnshire and we started with a trip to the local town of Horncastle. Sadly, many shops in Horncastle are closed on Mondays, but we managed to sample a number of charity shops. One had a nice selection of copies of Railway Modeller, mostly from the 1990s, so I bought a couple for 50p each. We then wandered into a junk shop in the old Coop building. The first room was as

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