National Trust membership is a little like gym membership in our house. When we join we're full of enthusiasm and excitement about how often we'll visit, making great plans for picnics, weekend walks and after school hot chocolates.
Like joining a gym, we quickly forget that our average cost per visit is about £50 which is why when we headed over to Oxburgh Hall today we of course signed up for annual family membership rather than paying the price for one day's admission. It's a charitable donation. Let's look at it that way.
Oxburgh has a beautiful and incredibly peaceful woodland trail, resplendent with copiced hazel, poplars, cherry and touch wood (sorry), a healthy number of ash trees. I found this bracket fungus on a hazel trunk, its shelves and petalled edges all velvety and vividly colourful.
We were due to spend the day clearing out the study but when you wake up on a February morning to find the sky blue and the sun shining, staying indoors is really no option.
No comments:
Post a Comment