Wrest House and Park

Date: 29 June 2008 18:23:39

HD and I have just spent a nice afternoon wandering round the grounds at Wrest Park, which is an English National Heritage place in Bedfordshire, a stately home with extensive gardens which were landscaped by Capability Brown (though rather more formal than the other Capability Brown gardens I've seen). Here are some pics:

A very lovely afternoon out :)

In other news, in church this morning I was amused by this little snippet in the notice sheet:

6.30pm First Eucharist celebrated by [curate who was priested yesterday]

Would all worshippers please make sure that they are familiar with the evacuation plan displayed in Church, and note that there are no fire exits at the altar end of the Church.

I'm pretty sure they're separate notices, but it read as though they were part of the same notice, which got me thinking that this might well be a Eucharist to remember - it got me thinking about the Vicar of Dibley wedding, with fireworks as she walked up the aisle. Pyrotechnic Eucharist, now that would be something - perhaps we should suggest it for Greenbelt, they have everything-else Eucharists.

In other other news, we've just been watching Neil Diamond at Glastonbury on the telly. How fantastic is he? - he was brilliant! I would have loved to have been in the crowd singing along to "Sweet Caroline", that would have been great! I want to get his new album, which I think means I'm officially a fogey. But I'm a fogey and proud of it :D