HORSE SHOE FARM

Singing in the rain - Jill, Conal & Andrew

at Wakehurst Park

We spent the weekend with Andrew & Jill at their beautiful Elizabethan house down a country lane near East Grinstead. It's a heavenly place with acres of green garden and lovely trees. Close to their farm is yet another National Trust House called Wakehurst Park with the most wonderful layer upon layer of trees so we went for a long walk in the ever-present rain - the rain coat I bought in Melbourne is moulded to my body and has been worn almost every single day since we've been away.

The gardens are lovely with little water falls, streams, lakes and the trees in every shape, size and hue of grey, green and of course the marvellous bronze of the copper beech. Wakehurst is aligned to Kew Gardens and they are collecting every seed of every plant and storing them - quite an undertaking I'd say. 

Andrew & Conal go back a long way and I remember many years ago when Jill and I wheeled our babies through Green Park while we were staying in the UK. We slipped into the easy, relaxed friendship like an old glove chatting and catching up on important matters like grandchildren. We had a lovely braai on Sunday for old times sake before hopping the train back to London.