To Woodstock, wearing so many layers that I am almost spherical - it is very very cold, windy and wet - perfect!
It used to be possible to walk around the grounds of Blenheim Palace for a token sum, but then the Marlborough Family had the brilliant idea of charging you a vast sum for the whole package whether you wanted it or not. So it became a case of sneaking further up the hill and using the tiny wicket gate and being prepared to be challenged. Some kind of compromise now seems to have been reached and you are allowed to walk well away from the house for free; at what point you cross the invisible `now you will be charged line' remains unclear. Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island points out that since it was public money that paid for this rather daunting pile and it lies across a public right of way we walkers should all be very stroppy indeed and stand up for our rights My spherical appearance and stroppy expression obviously did the trick - a lovely though damp walk. 
A triumph of lets all look on the bright side,we might not have a government, the weather is just dreadful but hey we'll have a fete - complete with a wonderful bric-a-brac stall run by some very smart ladies indeed who seemed unaware that the aim was to make money- `oh do take it dear, isn't it pretty'.
And Morris dancers - quite why one was wearing a cheese on his head...........
This amazing Flying Fish House in Woodstock is a new-build - a cool couple of million - very striking against the Cotswold stone cottages, and all the better for it.
A triumph of lets all look on the bright side,we might not have a government, the weather is just dreadful but hey we'll have a fete - complete with a wonderful bric-a-brac stall run by some very smart ladies indeed who seemed unaware that the aim was to make money- `oh do take it dear, isn't it pretty'.
And Morris dancers - quite why one was wearing a cheese on his head...........
This amazing Flying Fish House in Woodstock is a new-build - a cool couple of million - very striking against the Cotswold stone cottages, and all the better for it.
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