Eostre Fun
It's amazing what you can pack into four days when the weather is feeling friendly. There was lazing around and jobs about the house to do, sure, but there are also some nice places to go just down the road from where we live.
We've been meaning to visit Clandon Park for a while now. We've visited the grounds, but have not been in the house until this weekend. It's well worth a visit - the artwork contained in the house is stunning. There are several examples of the type of very old family portrait which I find intriguing, those with extremely dark backgrounds and faces and forms just brushed with light, so that they seem emerge from the gloom only briefly before sinking back again.
The grounds are lovely too, especially at this time of year. They have an abundance of my favourite flower:
And when I say an abundance, there is a custom-planted whole field of my yellow lovelies:
How wonderful. We returned home much rested and refreshed after that visit. Our visit to Syon Park to see the London Butterfly House was not quite so successful, due to the horrible traffic and the abundance of horrible, rude people, but I did enjoy seeing the butterflies and tropical birds (for as long as I could ignore the bratty children doing everything that the signs said they should not do, and their chav parents blithley ignoring their behaviour) and learned that they are very happy to socialise with you as long as you sit still and quiet!
This butterfly took an extreme liking to Ian, re-visiting him several times, Doesn't he make a lovely butterfly ring?!
So in conclusion, we've decided that visiting things close-by on a Bank Holiday is fine, but travelling anywhere close to any major city is a no-no. We're also considering having our version of Bank Holidays at a different time to everyone else; maybe a week or so later!
We've been meaning to visit Clandon Park for a while now. We've visited the grounds, but have not been in the house until this weekend. It's well worth a visit - the artwork contained in the house is stunning. There are several examples of the type of very old family portrait which I find intriguing, those with extremely dark backgrounds and faces and forms just brushed with light, so that they seem emerge from the gloom only briefly before sinking back again.
The grounds are lovely too, especially at this time of year. They have an abundance of my favourite flower:
And when I say an abundance, there is a custom-planted whole field of my yellow lovelies:
How wonderful. We returned home much rested and refreshed after that visit. Our visit to Syon Park to see the London Butterfly House was not quite so successful, due to the horrible traffic and the abundance of horrible, rude people, but I did enjoy seeing the butterflies and tropical birds (for as long as I could ignore the bratty children doing everything that the signs said they should not do, and their chav parents blithley ignoring their behaviour) and learned that they are very happy to socialise with you as long as you sit still and quiet!
This butterfly took an extreme liking to Ian, re-visiting him several times, Doesn't he make a lovely butterfly ring?!
So in conclusion, we've decided that visiting things close-by on a Bank Holiday is fine, but travelling anywhere close to any major city is a no-no. We're also considering having our version of Bank Holidays at a different time to everyone else; maybe a week or so later!
posted by Catherine at 19:17
1 Comments:
Hey you... glad you had a good easter - sounds similar to ours! Just to say that the 29th should be fine for our next get together. fancy coming to a Boden sale that day?
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