Chippenham Park

Firstly apologies for Roy for not responding to his comment for SSSOOO long. Alas mat I come under the underlying health thing. 

I missed visiting Chippenham Park gardens last year. I thought my luck was in as the season ends this week but it has been extended a few weeks so I'll get a second visit! 

Chippenham is normally only open for snow drops and daffodils as it is predominantly a wedding venue (there is a day or so in October).

It is a lovely garden, with some quirky art and well worth a visit.

Henry Moore and sheep in B&W

I went to the Henry Moore centre at Perry Green. If you like sculpture it is worth a visit. 

I normally visit in the Spring as the lambs are in the fields. In October there are less sheep about. They were all at one side of the field in a pack then one of the sheep took of and walked all the way across.

The sheep then promptly all gathered in one place. I guess the first sheep was the bellwether.

Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall

Some friends suggested going to the exhibition of work by artist Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall in Norfolk so yesterday off we went.

Houghton was the home of Britain's first prime minister Sir Robert Walpole. It is an attractive house situated in a fine park, with one of the best walled gardens in the country and has some permanent exhibits of outdoor art.

It also has a herd of white fallow deer which were very showy yesterday.

This non white was sitting apart from the others!!

There were two exhibits from Kapoor that I particularly liked firstly the Sky Mirror.

My other favourite exhibit was in the house. There were coloured steel "mirrors" on the wall. Alas they only work in colour really :)

My favourite of the permanent exhibits is the fountain which catches light. Again doesn't work in B&W really ;)

Houghton is a superb place to visit

Wimpole Hall

I went for a stroll around Wimpole Hall yesterday

There are a few bits of installation art in the grounds.

They all make use of mirrors in my view this one works best

It was so grey there was no colour anyway :D

Lord of all he surveys

Another art example.