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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 the old slate tiles, 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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Nice autumn leaves on the Albana walk
The impressive tall-pine tree tunnel on the Albana walk around Ickworth's grounds
Harry and Fred look at dens
Fred pokes around with a stick
Harry and Isobel wander off
the gang roams the woods
A view of the Suffolk countryside
The gang treads a misty path
Harry and Fred take a break
Sheep munch on the meadows
The boys climb a tree
Bright green hedges
Fred points to a tree 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
We stop for a hot drink and some snacks in the Orangery
Harry looks up
Outside, there's a cute baby in a plant pot
Harry peers out of the window
Some of Ickworth's epic plumbing
Fred peers into an underground water tank
Christmas socks
Fred sits in Santa's fireside chair
Harry really wants a go too
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 playing with 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 tons more tiles in boxes (out of the 40 tons on the roof)
A tree is lit up in purple
Sheep graze in an autumn scene
A braver soul reads a book outside
An 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 classic view of the rotunda is a bit different with its covering
There must be thousands of scaffolding poles involved in this job
We walk back past the orangery
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At home, Boris - Stripey Cat - stares out of the back door
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