Still catching up!
In February I visited a friend in Edinburgh. She, poor woman, went down with 'flu the day after I arrived and had to spend my entire visit in bed. Though my bad back prevented a lot of walking, I did manage a bit of sightseeing. This is photo was taken from inside John Knox's House on the Royal Mile
It's a really nice view up the Royal Mile, and if you took out the vehicles etc it probably wouldn't have been that different hundreds of years ago.
It was hard to take photos inside as the light was so poor, but there were quite a few original fireplaces, like this one.
That's a model on the table.
I developed my friend's 'flu once I was home, but not so seriously. Once I was better, I went up to Manchester for half term. There are no photos from there, except ones of my grandchildren.
In mid-March, Paul came home again but found us all in chaos. My eldest son found himself taking redundancy after yet another takeover of the software company for which he had worked for 16 years. He worked for them before he went to University and during his University vacations, and they offered him a job immediately he graduated. So he'd never written a CV and never had a real job interview - and he'll be 40 this year! It was a severed shock to all of our systems, and the CV writing was a effort. However, it didn't take him all that long to find another job, in Reigate this time, and he started in June.
I see from my photographic record that we had yet another visit to Beaver Water World in March
We managed to see the Beavers this time!
In April, we managed a visit to Great Comp Garden near Sevenoaks, as I was having some remission from my back problems. Great Comp Garden is the creation of the late Roderick and Joy Cameron who moved to the 17th Century Manor in 1957 with the idea of developing the garden into a plantsman’s delight.
They created a somewhat eccentric hideaway in Platt, complete with an Italian Garden, explorable ruins and a garden which I am told now boasts one of the best displays of Magnolias, Azaleas, Salvias, Crocosmias, Dahlias and other exotic plants in the region. None of these seemed to be in flower when we visited - and I've no idea what Crocosmias are, unless they are something to do with Crocus.
This was an Italianate temple hiding away in one corner.
Below are the explorable ruins.
After that we visited Gatton Park, a country estate set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown near Redhill. The 250 acres of parkland are now owned by The Royal Alexandra and Albert School and the whole park is only opened on a few days a year. We walked quite a way, and admired the view over the lake.
This is taken from what was originally the Manor House, now a school.
Later in the month, we took my younger grandson to Tunbridge Wells to see Thomas the Tank Engine who was visiting Groombridge Station.
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