Last weekend I took Douglas out on the Saturday to Welbeck Abbey - well not to the Abbey but to the cafe, exhibiton (The Harley Gallery), farm shop and loverly Dukeries Garden Centre that have been built in its grounds.
We spent the morning doing a bit of housework and deciding on our new carpet, then went down to Welbeck for lunch at the Lime House Cafe. We had two lovely salads, and felt ready for a look round the mini museum, which had the earring King Charles 1st wore when he was beheadded amongst other fascinating things.
The Exhibiton featured a very flamboyant artist called Andrew Logan who loves to work with mirrors and lots of colours. I particularly liked a 6 foot tall daisy that had Brian Enos music emmanating from it!! (Brian Enos music is very soothing!)
Next, we walked round a bit of the large garden centre (we purchased quite a few things and didnt trust ourselves to look round all of it for this reason) The farm shop got a vist, and we came away with two rather nice cheeses and some bacon.
Having exhausted ourselves and our budget, we had a lovely drive back through the springing countryside and put our edible purchases in the fridge and the plantable ones in the back garden.
On Sunday we did some boring but necessary housework, and made the kitchen and downstairs loo sparkle before I mowed the lawn for the first time this year. Douglas came out, and planted some of our new plants, and the cats also joined us :-)
It was a really lovely weekend!!
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