Here is a collage of the nine photos I took on my day out at Pashley Manor gardens in the little village of Ticehurst in East Sussex. It was a wonderful sunshiny day and the most beautiful sounds of small birds chirping against a soothing background of bubbling water. (Must be the most blissful orchestra ever.)
The Manor passed on from the Pashleys to the Bullens in 1483, in other words, to the "Boleyns", and there is a Philip Jackson sculpture of Anne in the first picture. (I'm not sure whether the Bullens bought it from them, or whether they fought them for it, or even whether the transfer was by the whim of the King. I need to find out some more of the history.
This beautiful Manor is still a family home, which was purchased privately, so you can't go inside the house. But who would want to be inside on such a lovely day in such a gorgeous garden? What a privilege it must be to live there in eleven acres of heaven.
