One of the nice things about visitors is that they usually have a car, and if we ask nicely we can go exploring a little further afield. As luck would have it Mum was also loves a trip out, so I hopped into their camper van and the was whisked a few miles up the road to Bedingbrough Hall, a magnificent Georgian Mansion owned by the National Trust.
But it was the gardens we really wanted to see.
Perhaps because I didn’t have Andy Stugeon, the gold medal winner at Chelsea, design it, with an army of volunteers to maintain it.
But even some of the flowers still have trouble with snails
Of course all good NT properties have somewhere for a cup of tea and a scone
We couldn’t leave without going inside, Bedingbrough hall has chosen to use its grandeur to house some of the National Portrait collection and it’s more of an art gallery than a home now. However to keep the younger visitors attention there is a floor of interactive ‘amusements’ including a dressing up box
And of course all those grand clothes needed to be kept clean, so a house this size had a whole laundry block full of boiling vats and mangles,
But I couldn’t see a tumble drier anywhere.
But that all looked like hard work, we these little fellas had the right idea
