A couple of days after Celia flew back to New Zealand I joined Mike and Linda in a cottage in Bradpole, just outside Bridport. We had lovely weather and exhausted ourselves visiting gardens, houses – and Uploders village Fete
Thomas Hardy’s house, Max Gate
Thomas Hardy’s lavatory
Mapperton House and gardens – both a delight and well worth a visit:
An Elizabethan house which has been in the hands of the Earls of Sandwich since the Restoration when first Earl brought Charles II back from Holland
The swimming pool
And then we went to Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
where I got hooked on the hydrangeas
Excellent trunk carving
And we went to Lyme Regis. I wanted us to go on a fossil walk as I’d enjoyed the one I did a while back so much but when I went to the Fossil Shop to ask about walks they said they had been suspended because it was too difficult while the cliff stabilisation works were underway. And indeed they are and they are massive, costing £19.5 million. They can only be carried out at low tide.
There was a completely different scene to the west of the town.
Rock balancing
Properties for sale
A roadside tea room nearby
And we went to Bovington Camp, after visiting T E Lawrence’s cottage, Clouds Hill.
At Bovington Camp a tank demonstation was underway
Inside, this was to enable a tank to be driven through deep water:
I was able to sit inside a WWI tank and have it explained to me; me and 10 children. Fab.
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