Himself chose the destination of today’s outing – which is fair enough, he never moans about all the places I want to visit. So we spent the afternoon at Forge Mill Needle Museum & Bordesley Abbey Visitors Centre in Redditch. OK, as I previously said, not really my thing old machinery but something interesting happened later on which made it worth my while.

We mooched around the Abbeys Visitors Centre first. It was that muddy, bitterly cold and wet we put off viewing the ruins – as you don’t have to pay to see them we thought we could always go back in the summer.

The Needle museum was housed in the original factory; the building itself is listed and still has the original water powered machinery. They were also hosting a display of sculptures by Jim Bond, some of which were animated.

It was whilst we were down in the scouring mills that I took an interesting photograph. Three orbs can been seen, the large one on the right and a smaller one in the centre and another to the left by the ladder. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the building is haunted as many people lost their lives there, especially when one of the polishing wheels shattered.

I've tried every way I can think of to make this enlarge when you click on the photo - it won't let me. If anyone is interested in the original as the details isn't at it's best, just e-mail me.

And it's back to work tomorrow - I should have stuck to my guns and taken the week off.