Ightham Mote
Mike and Su and Sej were coming to see us every other week and then things happened and then other things happened and we haven't seen them in ages. Ailz says it's six months; can it really be so long?
Anyway we now have a car again and that changes things.
And yesterday we met up at Ightham Mote- a few miles from where we used to live with my mother- and even closer to where I spent my teens.
No pix of Sej, I'm afraid. His parents don't like his image being posted on a public forum and I don't think they're wrong. It took him some time to recognise us. It can't have helped that he's used to seeing us in Eastbourne and we were out of context.
Ightham Mote is the near-perfect model of a late medieval moated manor house. Here's the gatehouse
And here's some old German stained glass. 16th century? Yes. I think so. It won't be original to the building. Some recent owner will have imported and installed it. It fills a window in what was once the chapel.
Last time we visited Ightam the old walled garden was being used as a car park. Now they've moved the cars elsewhere and the garden is being restored. Nothing much to see in there at present apart from a couple of charmingly peculiar wooden sculptures. Here's one of them- part art work, part bench and part tribute to a favourite author. Does Green Darkness fictionalise Ightham Mote? I must find out....
Anyway we now have a car again and that changes things.
And yesterday we met up at Ightham Mote- a few miles from where we used to live with my mother- and even closer to where I spent my teens.
No pix of Sej, I'm afraid. His parents don't like his image being posted on a public forum and I don't think they're wrong. It took him some time to recognise us. It can't have helped that he's used to seeing us in Eastbourne and we were out of context.
Ightham Mote is the near-perfect model of a late medieval moated manor house. Here's the gatehouse
And here's some old German stained glass. 16th century? Yes. I think so. It won't be original to the building. Some recent owner will have imported and installed it. It fills a window in what was once the chapel.
Last time we visited Ightam the old walled garden was being used as a car park. Now they've moved the cars elsewhere and the garden is being restored. Nothing much to see in there at present apart from a couple of charmingly peculiar wooden sculptures. Here's one of them- part art work, part bench and part tribute to a favourite author. Does Green Darkness fictionalise Ightham Mote? I must find out....