Felbrigg Gardens, Norfolk

I received a voucher through the post the other week from the National Trust for a free cream tea for two, so what better excuse for me and Ellen to visit Felbrigg hall? As you can see from the photos it was a gorgeous day, and yes I did get sunburnt. Typical.

Felbrigg House

Afternoon (11.50am) tea in the courtyard

We decided to cash in our voucher as soon as we arrived - even though it was a bit early for afternoon tea - and sat outside in the courtyard for a bit, since it was too nice to sit inside.  

As usual we were the youngest people there by about 50 years.

We then went to walk around the gardens for a bit because Ellen wanted to see if the vegetables she is growing were superior to the ones growing at Felbrigg. 

On the way we went past the donkeys who have been there for as along as I can remember. Apparently they can live to between 50-80 years! I do not think that is true. The national trust must be lying.

Punchy...... or Judy

Gardens

Flower Beds

Produce growing in the garden

Cabbages in their special cabbage prison

Gooseberries

Artichokes

The orchard

Lovely Lupins

My favourite - bees!

The best bench in the world!

Roses on the wall

Odds Farm, Wooburn Green, High Wycombe

4/6/2010

So me and Joe have been wanting to go to Odds farm for roughly three years, ever since he started uni and we realised High Wycombe didn't have much else to offer after you've seen the chair museum. Why did we want to go so much? Sheep racing. That's why. Teddy bear "jockeys" are tied on to various sheep and then the sheep are chased around a race course, while being forced to hurl themselves over jumps for the sick amusement of the paying visitors. The pictures on the website looked amazing. We were ridiculous excited.

House next to Odds Farm, best decorated house ever

This house was the first thing we saw when we arrived, I'm torn between loving and hating the paint job. Big tick for originality, but big cross for idiocy so it balances itself out to indifference I think. Thats not true, I do quite admire it.

Incredibly cute foal

Anyway after paying £9(!) to get in, we purchased animal feed and started wondering around the paddock. There were lots of baby animals too see, but most of the paddocks had double fencing around them, which was annoying because it means you couldn't get close enough to stroke most of the animals. I realise this is for safety reasons, so the animals are less likely to escape but also so that people don't get injured by the animals. But since its quite expensive to get in, its not really value for money. I'm probably just moaning, if id been the recommend age group (5-10) which the farm tries to attract, I wouldn't have been so bitter because they have a several really good play grounds and mini motorized tractors to go on. 

I was too big to go on these. I was jealous. I still am.

Lazy Pigs!

chicken with hat

Easiest maze in the world

After we had wondered around for a while, we stumbled upon the worlds easiest maze (yes I know its designed for children). We had to find the sheep inside, they weren't real sheep of course, just cardboard ones named things like 'Flossy' and 'Snowy'.

Mini Golf

Next we played mini gold, I don't know who won, we were all pretty bad, but i did finish first - so I count that as a victory for me.

Escapee goat

Baby Goats

Donkeys

Baby rabbits

sheep

Goats doing a crazy head dance to get food

Hiding piglet

left behind

In the end we didn't see the sheep racing, we had to leave at 2pm and it wasn't on till 3.30. We were pretty gutted, I hope we go back sometime. It was a fun day out, it's probably more fun for children than grown ups, but that's not surprising really.