During the real cold snap recently I decided that we would wrap up warm and go to Attingham for the first time this year, another National Trust property that we love to visit. The weather report promised sunshine and silly me thought that it might take the edge off the zero degrees temperature promised alongside. So armed with a flask of home-made soup we set forth...... and no, the sunshine didn't warm us, as the bitter northerly winds sweeping across us made it feel well below zero!! Ah well, nothing for it but lots of running around, climbing and jumping off things then! The girls challenged each other to cross a little stream by increasingly wobbly log bridges set over it. I was amused until I remembered that I had no change of clothes and considered how painful the whinging walk to the car might be with a wet through very cold child!!
Scarves were made into flags on poles.......
Tree trunks were made use of.......
Snowy log piles were scaled.......
Ice was broken......
Water was splashed......
And the lovely gardeners shared their bothy and stoked the fire for us to warm our cockles by as we supped our soup and warmed up again!
Eve was taken with this simple display of terracotta pots......
I wonder if the indoor displays were getting more attention than normal due to the frozen conditions stopping play in the kitchen gardens at Attingham also??
Fuelled by hot soup and a sandwich, Idris was much bolder and ventured far off the path into the woods, setting off a determined pace at one point in completely the wrong direction after a lovely labrador puppy that he took a fancy too..... He made me run to catch up with him!!!
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