I couldn’t resist striking a pose at Byron’s Pool

Lunch in Grantchester

What better way is there to spend your lunch hour than popping into The Orchard in Grantchester and lounging on a deckchair under the apple blossom, especially after a hectic morning.

Time has stood still in this delightful corner of England; nobody here was talking about the A list.

This little gem is famed for its association with the poet Rupert Brooke and his illustrious contemporaries, including Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes, Augustus John, Bertrand Russell, E M Forster and Ludwig Wittenstein.

A stroll past Jeffrey Archer’s house and down a nearby lane took me to Byon’s Pool named after Lord Byron who used to swim there while studying at Cambridge.

Rupert Brooke and Virginia Woolf are reputed to have enjoyed some skinny dipping there too; I’m sure they were not the only ones, especially in this weather.

May and June are my favourite months and I hope I can slip away and spend some more time in this illydic corner of Cambridgeshire, famed for Rupert Brookes’ line about how the church clock stood at ten-to-three, and is there honey still for tea?

The answer is “yes”, tea and tranquility are still on the menu.