Home early

Unfortunately our holiday was cut short as i have somehow got a viral infection and feel 'yuck' so we had to come home early wednesday instead of today (saturday).
Such a shame as it was a lovely little village 'maulds meaburn' and a nice little cottage too called 'riversteps'. We arrived saturday afternoon 15th, unpacked and had a quick look around the place.
Excellent place if you want to just chill and relax - no mobile phone signal so nobody can bother you, no shops, no pub (but) there's a really nice one a few miles away in 'Orton' called 'The George' good food, friendly comfy pub with a big log fire. If you like a sunday paper they deliver to the bus shelter for you to pick up from there.
The river 'Lyvette' runs right through the middle of the village...very picturesque, so we were able to watch any birds on it from our cottage window as it was only about 15-20 yards away and its pretty fast flowing in parts so we got to see some dippers that sat on the stepping stones, 2 yellow wagtails, 2 mallards. We also had a fleeting glimpse of 2 goosanders for a few minutes before they took off when they realised we were there. The garden of our cottage, and the 2 adjoining cottages had plenty of birds for us too watch, tree sparrows, housesparrows, thrush, blue-tits, long-tailed tits, great-tits, coal-tit, 1 bull-finch, 4 dunnocks, 2 robins, goldfinch, wren, chaffinch, rook, jackdaw. Plus while i was cooking tea a black-pheasant appeared from nowhere and sat himself on the garden fence, about 2 yards or so from the kitchen window, but up close he was a beautiful dark blue, what gorgeous colours. He came into our garden and next doors each of the few days we were there. There is a male and female kestrel to be seen flying around the riverbank and a grey heron landed on the river at the far end of the village, but couldnt get a close look as it would have frightened him off.
I was gutted that we had to come home early because of me being ill, but hopefully we can go back when the weather gets a little warmer...