You'll probably remember that back at the beginning of June we were away on the North Yorkshire coast. It was time for our annual weekend catch up with old work friends and we were meeting up in Robin Hood's Bay. As it's a bit far for us, just for a weekend, we had decided to stay on and make a week of it.
It’s the 7th year running we’ve managed to have our weekend catch up and it’s a great way of keeping in touch and having some good quality time together ... the trick is to get the date on everyone’s calendar early ... we already know we want to meet up in Broadway in The Cotswolds next year, just need to sort out the date.
It’s become a bit of a thing for us to try and visit a National Trust property on our way and this year we headed for Nunnington Hall, somewhere that we thought we hadn’t visited before.
First stop was definitely a comfort break and as I was making a mad dash I was stopped dead by an “excuse me ...” it was only Sue and Phil, one of the couples we were meeting up with, they’d obviously had the same idea and had arrived at pretty much the same time as we had.
Next stop for us was the tea garden out back, where we sat in the sunshine and had a quick lunch, under the watchful eye of some of the local inhabitants ...
I was thrilled to bits to find a peahen feather in the tea garden for my natural collection and that was soon safely stowed away to be added to my gull feather from Stratford when we got home. I lived in hope that I might find a vibrantly coloured peacock feather, but that was sadly not to be.
The gardens were looking lovely, with plenty of wild flower meadow to wander through.
... and couldn’t help but compare how he looked to a bride in her wedding dress ...

The alliums were looking particularly good ...
As were the irises ...
We wandered back towards the house via the cutting and vegetable gardens ...
Composting NT style ...
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