Paycockes House & Garden.. dodging the rain!!

After the sun and warmth of Pisa yesterday... today was somewhat different.. but very good nonetheless.

Went to Paycockes today... lovely blue skies and sun.... interrupted by the odd very heavy, and sometimes hail, showers!  We were lucky as it waited until we'd left before tipping down.

Paycockes was a Tudor merchant's house (amongst others) in 1512 with associations with the cloth trade, wool and lace.

Woolen cloth associated with Coggleshall......

This picture was removed last year... but now back again..

The area is also know for Lavender.. this will be lovely later in the year when in bloom!

Mr Ponders with the resident Kestrel :)

and on the way back to the car park.... ;)

Paycockes... in Springtime

I've been to the lovely house and gardens at Paycockes many times but today there was a promise of home baked scones.... but we were tooooo late... all gone in the morning before we got there in the afteroon.. SOB!!

The house has a new layout in the rooms and refreshed information which was great and very interesting.  Only improvement would be a translation of the will.. some parts I couldn't make sense of...

This was in the car park... AND very pink!!

The wisteria looked fab..

Lovely to see the information 'printed' on wool cloth :D

Seems time for a rest in the Book Shop..

Mr Ponders really does approve of this section :)

The garden was looking lovely and very lush..

Enjoying the 'bower'

A croquet duck :)

and he found a friend..

Most enjoyable visit but looks like we'll have to be early to 'catch' a scone!!