Friday, 31 August 2018

The summer stretched out before me.....

At the end of July when I finished school, my mum and I visited Sudley House in Liverpool to see this exhibition.












 I have been making poppies for our local church


We also had a few days away in the south of England. We stayed in a lovely little cottage which used to be a piggery on a farm in Wiltshire.
 it was raining when we arrived!


 we had a visitor!



The farm house
Stourhead
 The first day was grey and misty. We decided to visit a National Trust Property not too far away from where we were staying, Stourhead.




a stroll around the famous gardens








(many of these photos were on my Instagram feed)










On another day we visited Kingston Lacey over the border in Dorset, another National Trust property. We will definitely get our money's worth from our membership this year!








 on the way back to the Piggery we called in at Clouds Hill


Former home of T E Lawrence
Back in the village they were displaying scarecrows








and we had a lovely evening meal at the Lamb.
The next day was a glorious summer day so we decided to go to the seaside!
Lyme Regis.







I do love a trip to the seaside.







And all too soon it was time to leave the Piggery at Cools Farm.

But we were not quite finished with Wiltshire.
On the way home we visited Great Chalfield Manor and Gardens and Lacock Abbey!!
Told you we like getting our moneys worth!



The eagle eyed amongst you may recognise the Manor as Killewarren, Caroline's house in the BBC series Poldark



A spot of lunch mid way through our visit...









 On to Lacock Abbey....












We did a little more during my summer holiday but we have reached August at this point in my blog (what do you mean it is September tomorrow????
So August will be published in September!

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