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!
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| The farm house |
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| 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
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| 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!
PS. Is any one having trouble leaving comments here on my blog? If yes please email me (email in info) I know I don't get half as many comments as I use too but I should hate to miss the ones I do get! x
Lovely photos.I just wish I knew how to upload so many photos onto my blog!How nice to be able to do things with your Mum.
ReplyDeleteWe've visited .most of those places too, it's such a beautiful part of England.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos - I like the last house and the Abbey. I remember Lyme Regis from many years ago a proper English seaside resort.
ReplyDeleteI found I couldn't comment on most Blogger blogs from Wordpress unless the Name/URL setting was allowed. Eventually I was forced to join Google as the only way to leave a comment on some of them. It is because blogger have discontinued using the Open ID setting. This may be a reason for your reduced comments but also there are many bloggers that have finished blogging and also a lot of traffic was often directed through some of them.
thank you for that information, I am sad that blogging has died a little, I do understand as time is precious and social media has moved on but I plan to try and keep mine going even if I am always a few months behind!
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You have visited some wonderful places and one of my favourites - Lyme Regis. Have never visited Stourhead but seen many times in books and on TV those iconic views acros the lake. I loved Lacock when we visited many years ago both Abbey and village are fascinating:)
ReplyDeleteWow, you have done so much visiting and we haven't even had August yet!??!?!?x
ReplyDeleteAlways a joy to find a new post from you. Wonderful to see inside so many National Trust buildings. Just love your cats lazily enjoying summer.
ReplyDeleteFriends of mine have said they can't post on my blog if they are using an Ipad.
I very much enjoyed touring these NT places through you photos :)
ReplyDeleteAnd this was just the end of July? I don't know how you fit so much in!
Hi Lyn I can'y seem to find you on instagram. I am sootypea on there. x
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