by Trevor Millum | Jul 24, 2019 | Gardens, Places, Visits
There are enough pictures of pretty bays and beaches but you can never have too many gardens. So here is Diffryn Fernant, near Fishguard. Go see it, says Monty Don, so we did and he’s right. It ranges from the cottage and kitchen garden areas near the house...
by Trevor Millum | May 8, 2019 | Gardens, Visits
A throw of the dice, metaphorically, was what brought us to Earl Sterndale, deep in the Peak District. A few days with friends, what could be nicer? The dice were part of exhibits in the museum room at Haddon Hall – found behind the panelling in 1909. Haddon is...
by Trevor Millum | Feb 12, 2019 | Gardens, Places, Visits
Off to somewhere warm and exotic? No, not at all. Lovely North Wales and Conwy in particular. A castle, a walled town and views over the water from the chaise long in the bedroom while sipping a glass of something… And only four hours away. We couldn’t...
by Trevor Millum | Nov 15, 2018 | Gardens
Autumn has been gentle this year. The acer hung on to its leaves for a long time until over a couple of days they all came down and covered this part of the garden like snow – in that you can’t tell path from flower bed. The aspen then added its...
by Trevor Millum | Aug 9, 2018 | Family, Gardens
A couple of big heads at Doddington Hall – and I’m not talking about us or our visitors… Just a couple of the two hundred or so exhibits in the gardens and outbuildings that make up the Sculpture Exhibition. The photo shows the more formal area; out...
by Trevor Millum | Jul 18, 2018 | Gardens
July has been enriched and enlivened by a visit from our Californian friend Jack, last seen in Borneo, but now with Sylv in the gardens of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire – somewhere most visitors get to see as it’s one of the loveliest examples of a historic...
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