Chippenham Park Gardens

I met up with my friends Rebecca, Stuart and June at Chippenham Park Gardens. It was flipping cold! The sun kept threatening to come out but never managed it.

Chippenham is mainly a wedding venue but is open until April for Spring flowers and for a week in June and October. I'll have to visit in June to see it at a different season! 

There was a good showing of Snowdrops and Hellibores...

Snowdrops galore but not a scone to eat.

I wasn't sure where to go today but I ended up at Anglesey Abbey. I arrived at 9:30 (opening time!) and the car park was filling up! 

I always pop into the cafe first and NO SCONES. I was told fruit scones would be 30 minutes and the cheese 3 minutes so I wandered off

Oddly you don't see many ducks on Quy Water but today there were a few! 

I was just too early for the gardeners cafe and so headed back to the main one

There were lots of Song Thrushes many of them singing! Always good to hear

So I got back to the cafe at 10:50 and there were cheese scones but no fruit scones! There was quite a queue so I wandered around the shop and then pop to home. 

Lots of snowdrops and I think there is going to be a good display of daffodils when Spring comes.