Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked and share some of that love.
Last week I mentioned there hadn’t been rain, this week all I’m saying is there’s been plenty thank you. We were lucky though as we had a couple of days off, and one of those days was glorious. The other gale force winds, and intermittent showers. Of course that was the day we went out and visited Chartwell, which despite being relatively close (and less than an hour away) we hadn’t been.
I fell in love with the vegetable garden as soon as I saw it from the terrace above. It was huge, and as you’d expect well stocked. But what I really liked is spotting the unusual, just like this fern growing out of the brick wall happily sitting alongside the espaliered apples. And the apples were huge too. There’s plenty to see there, even though the house isn’t yet open. I think we’ll be heading back at some point, as it would be great to see inside the house and soak up its history. Assuming that that will happen given everything that’s going on with Covid-19, but also the changes the National Trust are potentially making. For what it’s worth, I disagree with closing houses and gardens, while preserving the countryside is important, for me they also have a role in preserving history of properties, and educating the nation too. But we’ll see how things go.
