A Trip to Ickworth House, Horringer, Suffolk - 30th December 2016

Harry and Fred on their bikes (for a bit, anyway)

Harry trundles off past the porter's lodge

Ickworth's rotunda in the mist

The boys in the trees

Harry looks back

Isobel, Harry and Fred head to the church

We inspect a frozen pond

A tree silhouette

Harry scoots off on his bike

The feeble sun and a hazy church

Poking around inside St. Mary's Church

Fred looks at a 17th Century tombstone

Fred looks at stuff

A European Peacock butterfly tries to hibernate

Mediaeval stained glass

Fred finds a big stick to hurl into the pond

Isobel and Fred

Isobel and Fred near the orangery

Harry outside the Orangery

The boys look at a Monkey Puzzle tree

The old orangery at Ickworth

Harry sits down for a spot of lunch

Harry and some apple juice

We're down in the basement

Fred and Harry run off

The boys run around in the mist

A view of a misty orangery

A crow eats a bit of discarded apple

Fred hangs from a tree

Harry looks at some skulls

A stump in the stumpery

A zoom exposure of a bush

A zooming stump

An amazing tree root, exposed in the Stumpery

Harry pokes around in a hedge

Topiary balls

Isobel and the rotunda

Harry hugs a hedge

Lots of stickers stuck to a post

Harry and Fred find a zipwire

The boys play on a zipwire

The playground is a bit wet and leafy

Fred flakes out in the car park at the Arc

Cobbles and a carousel

A carousel outside Debenham's

Fred's on a horse called Fred

Fred points

Carousel blur

Fred the carousel horse

Fred gets his feet measure in Clarke's

Harry gets his feet measured

Harry puts his old shoes back on

Trigenic: a bit like the old Trigenix

Isobel and Harry scope the menu

Isobel and Fred in Wagamama, Bury St. Edmunds