at this time we usually go to the Lake District but ha! we cannot so easily be predicted. The poor Lakes District is flooded and will be so boggy. Better to go for 2 days to Kent - about 2 hours drive away to walk in the mud there and watch TV from the comfort of an enormous hotel bed. But I hated the hotel bed. It was very large and very hard and made me feel as though I was lying on a table for some kind of inspection.
So we went to Chartwell and there was not much to see but we looked at the vegetable garden, which is new, to see how they do their raspberries. In our allotment we planted 15 canes just before Christmas. We planted them in 2 lines. Clearly they are meant to be supported because a kind person had gone to the 2 original canes we planted (to make the plot look less empty) and hammered in a small log behind each. At Chartwell the supports were like fence posts and the wires were heavy gauge but not under tension.
We also saw Churchill's paintings in the studio, on a gloomy day with inadequate lighting, and I was slightly cross that the National Trust don't feel as though it would be in keeping to light the pictures properly. You can see there are pictures on shelves, but that's about all. But perhaps Churchill was right about them, perhaps they are not, most of them, very good? But they are very much to my taste.
Here is a tree at Chartwell, quite near the house, which was a really good unusual tree. I am afraid my pictures are blurred.
Cryptomeria Japonica
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Cryptomeria
Genus
Cryptomeria is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae, formerly belonging to the family Taxodiaceae. It includes only one species, Cryptomeria japonica. It is endemic to Japan, where it is known as sugi. The tree is often called Japanese cedar in English, though the tree is not related to the true cedars.
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