A Few Days in Suffolk

We've recently returned from a short break at Hare Field Cabin, at Foxearth in Suffolk (it;s actually in Essex,but only just).. This wasn't the first time we've been but this time was for a few days longer with more leisure to explore.

 We were extraordinarily lucky with the weather  - apart from the first morning which we spent playing board gamed before heading out for lunch at a local farm shop, the days were the days were sunny and the skies blue.

We walked round the fields, full of autumn colour,

We visited the nearby village of Cavendish, nestled round its village green, ventured further afield to Flatford Mill and Ickworth, and stopped off at Wimpole Hall on our way home.

Flatford

Ickworth

Wimpole

It was a lovely few days, and I expect to be back again as there is so much to see in the area. 

 

Kedleston again - Pleasure Grounds

Kedleston is our nearest National Trust property so with an afternoon spare we paid a visit,

This time to the Pleasure Grounds where flowers were still blooming.

It was a lovely day to sit in the sun and just take in the view.

 

Calke again

We went to Calke on a wondrous sunny autumn day. Investigating the orangery, with its exotic blooms and crumbling plasterwork. 

and nerines flowering outside.

Then round to the garden with its old worksheds, with flowers in the window, ancient cupboards still with plant labels and antique gardening equipment hung up as if ready to use. 

Then past the dahlias, which looked marvelous, to the walled garden with flowers growing around the outside edges/

Most of the apples have been picked but some remain high up n the branches.

And doubling back to the auricula theatre with its display of pumpkins and apples, and its own scarecrow