Saturday, October 17, 2015

Gran's Castle Weekend

It's Gran's birthday!!!  We all went to Longs Park Castle in Wiltshire to celebrate.
Karen, Graham, Lisa, Joe, Rhys, Danny, Megan, Mark, Cadi, Rebecca and Wendy behind the camera...
Longs Park Castle is a folly originally built as a lodge for Rood Ashton House. The house was demolished in 1970, but the castle lives on!
Joe trying out the swing...
The back of the castle.  Lisa says she wants to live in a castle now!
The lads just wanna play footy :-)
Gran opening her birthday pressies...
Slap-up traditional English Castle Curry in the great hall.....Happy Birthday Gran....
Lisa taught everyone how to play the new version of Cluedo.  I think the knight wants to play...
Joe found my camera and walked round the house taking photos of 'Things I like'...
In the morning we climbed the tower...
I'm the king of the castle...
We went for a walk round Lacock.  Lacock is an old preserved National Trust village...
The local estate was home to Fox Talbot, one of the founding fathers of photography....
Good rope swings tooooooo
Lisa in the old cloisters of Lacock Abbey which became Fox Talbot's house after Henry VIII had his way...
Lisa and Karen.... 
Rhys did a great job of entertaining Joe for the weekend....Here they are watching the rugby....
On the way home we stopped at a playground for Lisa to stretch her legs :-)
It was a great weekend.....Thanks Gran :-)