EYAM & BAKEWELL
The Rain was lashing down but we decided to be brave and come off the M1 at j29 and visit EYAM in the rain and dark and wind. It seemed fitting to visit the spiritual home of the bubonic plague in health threatening conditions.

We stopped en route in Bakewell, or quite near it at least, or at least in front of a sign that told us it was a bit near.
We got ourselves tarted up and procured a locally made oversized cherry topped bakewell tart.
http://bygonederbyshire.co.uk/articles/Bakewell:_An_Accidental_Pudding

Bakewell pudding was created, so we are told, by accident. The Tart that we procured was also a bit of a mistake, they're really quite dry aren't they? Bakewell pudding is much nicer. Its funny, but one of the assistants can distinctly remember driving through Derbyshire as a nipper being told the story of the accidental pudding and how the baker had an insufficient amount of flour to complete the desired pud.. so added, in fated and genius manner, a load of ground almonds instead- we like this version better than the one about the failed jam tart in this link.
We are told in our lessons that Humphrey Littleton's 'Bakewell tart' is actually not a proper game but simply an order issued to Nigella Lawson .....

The village of EYAM in Derbyshire is very pretty indeed and has lots of plaques on all the houses, a plague of plaques in fact. We tried to take pictures of the church with the wrong camera settings for a while- and fast realised that taking pictures of the whole team at each destination was possibly going to prove a little tricky.....
We did get lots of weird white circles or...... cue spooky music... orb type things all over the pictures of the graveyard though. We thought it was probably the rain but.. cue string stabs.... they are in different spots on each photo....we are not agreed on the historical significance of these spirit orb raindrops.... yet.

Eyam is old, old and everyone locked themselves and their fellow villagers in for ages to stop the plague spreading in 1666- they evidently all perished cos we didn't see a soul except for a small representation of yout' at one instant.