On the day when we were supposed to be travelling on our cancelled holiday we decided to have an afternoon in a local garden - a famous landscaped garden by William Kent, surrounding a Jacobean House and enclosed walled gardens as well.
It was stunning hot weather and with a fridge emptied ready for the holiday we went to M & S and treated ourselves to a picnic of smoked salmon, hummous, cheese, salad, tomatoes, strawberries, wine!
Well it certainly cheered us up as it was an idyllic day. There is no tea room or shop at the garden but they welcome picnickers. There are no rules or regulations either. And there were only about eight cars in the car park we only saw a few people the whole day.
Not a substitute for our holiday but a lovely day and a reminder of the glories of Britain!
Here are some photos:
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SeasideMan
Pro - 2009-06-06 @ 17:10:31
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hobbyhorse
- 2009-06-06 @ 17:43:19
It's really beautiful there. Completely unspoilt. And relaxed.
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Miza-T
- 2009-06-06 @ 20:38:14
Lovely garden and great pics.
Is mr Cat feeling better?
And were do you live, we had rain all day!
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hobbyhorse
- 2009-06-07 @ 12:06:35
It was last Tuesday.
And since then the weather has gradually got worse this neck of the woods - Oxfordshire.
Cat is doing fine now. Very very very well. And we are missing our hols!
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Miza-T
- 2009-06-08 @ 00:05:43
Little naughty old Cat, I bet he did it on purpose
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Looks like a lovely place, and your picnic sounds very tasty :-)
Tom.