Thursday 13th February 2014
Les & Jamie had booked into Cafe Central in Matlock to learn how to make macarons so I was given the honour of looking after Abner for the afternoon!
The plan had been to do a little geocaching while I was waiting for them to arrive, then take Abner for a walk in the pushchair while he went to sleep (a couple of times round the Park), finishing off in Wetherspoon's while we waited for their cakes to cool!
Didn't quite work out according to plan as Abner wasn't interested in sleeping & then wasn't very well.... so we spent a lot of time cuddling & never made it to the pub.... & Abner likes pubs!
This is part of the colossal Cawdor Quarry which finally closed in the late 1990s but which still dominates this part of Matlock
Despite the above date I found references to it being used as a public tip 'for the last 50 years' & a local rock-climbing club refer to trees showing 'at least 40 years growth'!
The land was originally bought by Sainsburys & there's a new store & petrol station here: it was then sold on for housing & new homes stand all along the top of the quarry-edge!
Views are impressive from here - they must be fantastic from up there!
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