The Pleasures Of Longleat And Thoughts Of Castle Greysquirrel.

We, especially Nigel, enjoyed all the pleasures of our day at Longleat ………

…… in particular being up close and personal with the giraffes

….. and at one with the lions, (although they were asleep as we drove past), plus being able to see all the other wonderful  animals from the comfort of our car following the safari trail ….. well, all that is except for the monkeys, we had to give their enclosure a wide berth as Darrell has a huge phobia of being surrounded by monkeys in a any car since watching The Omen. Bertie, to be honest was not really that impressed, in fact it’s pretty safe to say he is probably not a budding David Attenborough in the making …….

……. although he was suitably impressed enough by the giant lion statue outside the house to take a picture or two.

No, it was the drainpipes on walls of the great house and the fountains that caught his interest ……. more plumbing I suppose!

The fountains were very impressive, but Darrell said that he thought that the blue coloured water was a tad on the tacky side for his tastes, but each to his Lordships own.

Nigel was non committal, a fountain, is a fountain, is a fountain he declared.

No photographs are allowed to be taken in the house itself but it was suitably impressive, each room could easily have  housed The Towers several times over with Nigel musing that their bill for Pledge to help keep the dust down must be astronomical and that their feather dusters must have a mahooooosive handle to reach all the high ceilings, what is he like?

The gardens were romantic and we all said that we missed the old garden at Castle Greysquirrel because trimming of the occasional bush can be quite therapeutic and relaxing in a topiary sort of way.

….. sadly, back at The Towers we have “a man that does” to trim all our bushes now, usually every other week, it’s just not the same as trimming your own.