A few weeks ago we decided to have a few days away; having called into Stamford for an A1 break to meet a friend, we declared a need to do a longer visit..... we were really taken by the River Welland, watermeadows, winding alleys, the variety of age of buildings and our B&B!
Willian Cecil's Elizabethan Burleigh held a treasure trove of lacquering (japanning).
Sculptures in the grounds were both permanent and seasonal and worth hunting for.
The Surprise Garden must surely have been what inspired the Duchess of Northumberland for the Alnwick Garden.
We moved on to a second Bed and Breakfast where creaking 400 year old beams made us welcome.
Via a frugal life and 4 marriages Bess of Hardwick announced her arrival at the Tudor court with a new Hall 'more glass than wall'
and with her initals E S Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury (can you see them on the very top?
Click on the photo to enlarge it).
She really had not enjoyed her time as 'wardress/jailer' to Mary, Queen of Scots but spent a lot of time creating the world's biggest collection of tapestries( in a dark house to preserve the needlework
but with lots of 'Elizabethan' stewards to enlighten you.)
Now to import photos- but bearing in mind that there are errors coming up regularly on this site, this whole blog might go down the Swanee!
No good folks- the cursor won't stay in the place it is put, the photos won't import and the whole top line of 'instructions' is superimposed on top of each other/has disappeared...agh!....so I shall give up and may come back later.
Looking at the preview it is not going to publish with all the breaks for photos which I have punctuated on the draft! Come on geeks!
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