Today we visited Lyveden, a National Trust property we’d not been to before.
We started with a picnic lunch in the car. Very nice!
Lord Robarte’s Regt. of Foote, of The Sealed Knot, were ‘in residence’. I’ve been wanting to get into the whole ECW era again, for quite a while. This was a nice point of re-entry.
Teresa seems to enjoy it all as much as I do. Which is great!
I got to have a go on the drum, pictured above. What fun! I must make my own ECW marching drum. And to handle the muskets. Ditto musket-making!
Later on we had a hot chocolate, in the café. I like the dinky wee models that are on display there.
And then we walked up to the ‘Bield’, or ruin. Which one can explore internally. There’s even a spiral staircase up to a viewing platform.
What fun, to explore.
We also ‘visited’ the turf maze. The only issue there is, you can’t see it from the ground. Believe it or not, it’s pictured below…
We then returned to the house and camp, just in time to see Lord Robarte’s Regt. parade and drill a bit more.
And then, finally, we headed back home…
Teresa looking gorgeous, as we play a hand or three of rummy.