Isobel's mushrooms are doing well
The Tiles of Ickworth House, Horringer, Suffolk - 30th November 2019
We're off to Ickworth House, near Horringer in Suffolk, for another walk around. This time, the rotunda is completely covered in scaffolding - something which can be annoying if it's the first time you've been somewhere, but which in this case is quite interesting simply because the scale of the scaffolding job itself is truly stunning. Also, the National Trust is flogging off some of the 40 tons of old slate tiles from the roof, which are being replaced, for a modest sum, so we pick up a couple to do some painting on or something. We also do the "life below stairs" tour, which we'd actually done before, but it's true what the guide said: each one of them has a different take on it, so it's still interesting to do.
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Prět à Pousser mushrooms in a box
Boris - Stripey Cat - stares out of the back door
A tree and a carpet of leaves
Nice autumn leaves on the Albana walk
Harry's got a big stick
Harry and Fred look at dens
Harry looks up at a den
Harry and Isobel wander off
We roam the woods
A view of the Suffolk countryside
Isobel, Fred and Harry tread a misty path
Harry and Fred take a break
The boys climb a tree
Bright green hedges
Fred points to a stump that looks like a fish head
Ribbony fungi
Some more fungi, which look like sea-shells
A twisty tree stump
A carpet of autumn, picked out by the low sun
We find some huge mushrooms off the path
Our first close-up of the truly epic scaffolding
The boys look at books in the NT shop
Harry and Isobel in the NT shop
We stop for a hot drink and snacks in the Orangery
Harry looks up
Outside, there's a cute baby in a plant pot
Harry peers out of the window
In the cellars of Ickworth
Some of Ickworth's epic plumbing
Fred peers into an underground water tank
Christmas socks
Harry wants a go of Santa's chair
Fred nabs the prime seat yet again
The coat's a bit oversized, but the hat fits
A kitchen range is explained
Harry pokes an old recipe book
The boys are back at the knives and stabbing weapons
Down the bricked corridors of 'below stairs'
The boys leg it up the stairs
Fred looks at calendars back in the NT shop
Some of the old and new roof tiles
Outside there are loads more tiles in boxes
A tree is lit up in purple
Sheep graze in an autumn scene
A brave soul reads a book outside
A purple urn in the stumpary
Isobel, Harry and Fred in the illuminated stumpery
More purple trees
Isobel roams around in the lights
A tree stump is lit up in red
The rotunda is quite different with its covering
Twinkly lights on the way to a garden shelter
There are thousands of scaffolding poles involved
The Ickworth orangery
We walk back past the orangery
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Isobel's mushrooms are doing well
Isobel's mushrooms are doing well
Prět à Pousser mushrooms in a box
Boris - Stripey Cat - stares out of the back door
A tree and a carpet of leaves
Nice autumn leaves on the Albana walk
Harry's got a big stick
Harry and Fred look at dens
Harry looks up at a den
Harry and Isobel wander off
We roam the woods
A view of the Suffolk countryside
Isobel, Fred and Harry tread a misty path
Harry and Fred take a break
The boys climb a tree
Bright green hedges
Fred points to a stump that looks like a fish head
Ribbony fungi
Some more fungi, which look like sea-shells
A twisty tree stump
A carpet of autumn, picked out by the low sun
We find some huge mushrooms off the path
Our first close-up of the truly epic scaffolding
The boys look at books in the NT shop
Harry and Isobel in the NT shop
We stop for a hot drink and snacks in the Orangery
Harry looks up
Outside, there's a cute baby in a plant pot
Harry peers out of the window
In the cellars of Ickworth
Some of Ickworth's epic plumbing
Fred peers into an underground water tank
Christmas socks
Harry wants a go of Santa's chair
Fred nabs the prime seat yet again
The coat's a bit oversized, but the hat fits
A kitchen range is explained
Harry pokes an old recipe book
The boys are back at the knives and stabbing weapons
Down the bricked corridors of 'below stairs'
The boys leg it up the stairs
Fred looks at calendars back in the NT shop
Some of the old and new roof tiles
Outside there are loads more tiles in boxes
A tree is lit up in purple
Sheep graze in an autumn scene
A brave soul reads a book outside
A purple urn in the stumpary
Isobel, Harry and Fred in the illuminated stumpery
More purple trees
Isobel roams around in the lights
A tree stump is lit up in red
The rotunda is quite different with its covering
Twinkly lights on the way to a garden shelter
There are thousands of scaffolding poles involved
The Ickworth orangery
We walk back past the orangery