A small book sitting on a display at the garden centre. What could be wrong with that? It can become addictive, that’s what! The book is designed to lead you around a small market town in Wiltshire and to identify locations that appear in the book… My problem is that I tend to become distracted – spot an interesting garden, plant… or find assorted items that catch my attention that are not in the book!

It’s a bit like the I Spy books I had as a child – mark off one item & you gain points. The trouble is it all seems so simple, until you look at what you’ve found & compare the photo in the book.

Our first outing took us to the church, it seemed a good place to begin. On the way we met a friendly postman, keen to ask about the book we were carrying… All became clear – this was no ordinary postman, this was also the person responsible for the book! Later I wished I’d asked him to autograph it for me.

Next we were greeted by lots of cheery daffodils. Their welcome was much warmer than the one we received as we stepped into the church. Perhaps we had interrupted one of the church ladies at work. Whilst she bustled around we looked for clues & locations of statues – anything to start our countdown!