chesneycat

What do you do on a (more-or-less) sunny bank holiday monday? The same thing as everyone else in Redditch, judging by the overflow carpark at Coughton Court. I've been there once before, back when the National Trust first started gtting a slice of the pie... back in the days when it was the sole concern of the Throckmortons, we avoided it - my mother in law used to work as PA for the lady in question, and managed to set a long-service record that was unheard of in recent history: all of four months. Anyway, it's now fully NT run, and free to visit for us lucky members.

I'm going to miss the NT out here. And English Heritage. Germany doesn't really have anything that fills the same role, and it shows.

So. Bluebells. We had to trek through some gloriously squelchy mud to reach them, but it was worth it. [Did you know that only the most ancient woodlands have well established patches of extensive bluebells, because they're that slow to spread?] Anyway, I think I'll let them speak for themselves.