A sunny walk at Charlecote

One of the most wonderful things about being self-employed is that when the weather is as glorious as it has been today, I don’t have to be cooped up indoors chained to a desk. Having spent the morning working, we took a spontaneous afternoon off and took advantage of this beautiful sunny day to enjoy a walk around Charlecote Park. These are some of the photos we took.

This is St Leonard’s Church, which contains the vault of the Lucy family, owners of Charlecote Park.

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That’s me walking towards the church.

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This bench outside the church was the perfect suntrap – it was so nice to sit and bask in the sun! Please ignore the shameful hole in my jeans.

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This is the view from the bench, looking towards the house.

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A group of male deer were sitting not far away, their antlers looking most impressive.

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Lee, at one with nature.

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Spring is well and truly here, with lots of leaves on the trees now.

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This little bridge crosses a small stream…

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…from which you get this view.

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We found our tree, which we planted on Valentine’s Day. Its leaves are starting to come out now!

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We couldn’t resist getting a photo of ourselves with it!

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The deer were still relaxing in the background as a couple of birds raced across the lake.

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Looking back towards St Leonard’s Church.

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A different church, the one at Hampton Lucy. It looked a little bit like an Oxbridge college, I thought.

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St Leonard’s with the lake in the foreground.

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Another view of those deer.

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Finally, we called in at the little garden centre on the way out and discovered a farm shop there selling all kinds of fruit and veg – I’ll definitely be calling in there more regularly! This time I just bought some freesias for the house and tulips for the garden.

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