Today we took advantage of the lovely afternoon for a drive in the country and a visit to a Historic House - Parham House, in West Sussex. I had a complimentary ticket from the Silent Auction at our school fair, and as the house has limited opening hours, it seemed sensible to take advantage of it while we could.
The house is in a lovely setting, nestled up against the South Downs, and is a very pretty example of Elizabethan design (it was built in 1577). We enjoyed browsing the gardens and touring the house - fortuitously, in addition to some nice paintings and copies, the house also contains a rather spectacular collection of needlework & tapestries, which I found very interesting.
Even the children had fun, running about the gardens and doing an "I-Spy" tour around the house, complete with clipboard. It's nice that the children are getting old enough to do stuff like this, and to enjoy it. They even stood and listened very politely and with some interest while one of the guides was telling us about why so few Elizabethan buildings in the Southeast have South-facing windows [because of superstitions about bad air coming over from the continent!].
More photos over here.
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