Lyme Park in Sunshine

Perfect sunshine all day today, so we scooted off to Lyme Park, a trip we were going to do with the cousins yesterday if it had not rained. Lyme Park, gentle reader is a whopping estate just over the hill from Susan's village. The family that manicured it, owned it from the 1300s until the 1950s. They dropped it on the National Trust to maintain so they could pay death duty, keeping the family farm down the road which they have been working since the 1100s.

So, the National Trust has this enormous deer park with a show off house in the middle of it. Just wonderful to walk around, look at quirky things like the giant Coolgardie safe pictured above. It also has a fantastic adventure playground that Lucy really enjoyed, even if she found some of the equipment more challenging than she wanted. Eventually she found she enjoyed climbing fallen trees the best. She also enjoyed being given the basic rules of croquet and playing against Mum and Dad.

 

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