It was very, very cold - there was snow on the ground when I got up, and it kept trying to snow on us all day.
We had a bracing walk around some of the stones at Avebury, then visited the Manor,which has recently been done up by the National Trust, by reproducing (rather than preserving) furniture and fittings, and have arranged different rooms as they may have been at different periods, ranging from a Tudor Hall and Bedroom, to a 1939 living room (complete with zebra-skin chair, and cocktail-shakers.)
Tudor Bedroom, Avebury Manor |
They have a tea-shop in the library, too, where Wendy was able to sample her first English cream tea :-) And we were both able to warm up enough to escape hypothermia. There were some very *bracing* breezes going on out among the stones..
And then, after visiting the Avebury museum (small; contains a lot of flint axes) back to my house, to defrost ourselves a little more.
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Love Avebury! We have some American cousins visiting next week and will certainly take them there. I enjoyed doing some oil paintings of the standing stones at the end of last year. I give them to Oxfam where they sell - they don't ask for much, but it's nice to think that people are benefitting.
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