National Trust

Today the National trust impressed me.

August 1, 2012 By Jax Blunt 5 Comments

I am a little sad that we live in a world where this impressed me, mind. Fabulous day out at Wicken Fen. I’ll write it up properly tomorrow though, am very tired now.

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: equality, National Trust, signs

Anglesey Abbey with added friends.

August 2, 2011 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

Today we went out to Anglesey Abbey. It happens to be conveniently located between Merry and myself, and so an ideal place for us to arrange a transfer of daughters – I have acquired an extra one for a few days. It also achieved ticking off of another item from my summer todo list – [...]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: Anglesey Abbey, National Trust, patchofpuddles

More prize winning shenanigans

October 23, 2010 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

A little while back I entered a competition in the Times. It was celebrating/ promoting the National Trust Food Glorious Food campaign, and it included both admission and meal vouchers. I won. I like winning competitions So on Thursday we used the vouchers – we took Tim’s brother and sister-in-law to Sutton Hoo, spent some [...]

Filed Under: Ages past, Getting to know you, places we like Tagged With: competitions, Food Glorious Food, National Trust, Sutton Hoo

Blickling hall.

May 9, 2010 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

While we were camping at Deersglade campsite, most of our friends spent bank holiday monday at Bewilderwood. As a family we didn’t fancy that – we’re not good at queuing, and I had a feeling queues may be involved on a bank holiday. Instead I’d taken both our National Trust and English Heritage handbooks and [...]