The plantings at the museum encouraged insects |
Interesting paving |
Asclepias curassavica |
Helianthus |
As well as the bumble bee there are other insects on the rose
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Barn |
Tudor actors |
Old cart acts as a seat |
Loch Ness monster or a snake |
Teasels |
Teasels |
Buff tailed bumble bee |
The boys |
Amersham Prefab with a rather too expensive car |
This enlarges enough to read easily |
Sitting Room which felt quite spacious as the furnishings were in
proportion to the space
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Master bedroom |
Children's bedroom |
Bathroom |
Cupboard |
Separate loo |
Nissan hut viewed from the prefab's front door |
The cottage and the Mission Room |
Leagrave Cottage LHS 18th Century RHS 20th Century |
Sitting Room |
Range |
Living room corner |
Spinning Wheel |
Fire |
The Players |
Clematis hybrid |
Workshop |
Anemone japonica |
Second bedroom |
Cot |
Main bed |
We went over to the Barn to participate in the Tudor Court.
Cases were tried and the visitors acted as the Jury.
http://www.historyreenactment.org.uk/ |
Justice of the Peace
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Innkeeper |
Villagers |
The Innkeeper and Barmaid |
Villagers again |
Checking the measure |
Sleeves can be added easily |
Two suitors which would you choose?
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Exquisite whippet |
Justice of the Peace and his Clerk |
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Haddenham Croft Cottage |
Henton Mission Room |
Hear, hear! |
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Garston Forge |
Garston Forge bellows |
Leather aprons |
Garston Forge |
Guelder Rose |
Red Currants |
Grasshopper |
Mountain ash |
Yoke and buckets |
Butter churn |
Tractor |
Thresher |
The Girls |
Barn roof |
Cart |
Henton Mission Room |
Inside the Mission |
Inside the Mission |
Magnificent tree |
Thame Vicarage Room |
Preston Bisset Privy |
Teasels |
Eryngium with bumble bee |
Tudor players |
Chris, Julie, Peter and Helen had a good day out with a
picnic in the garden of Astelham Manor Cottage.
Julie enjoyed a powerful mobility scooter, which she did
not push to its limit... |