My New Country Retreat

I've been feeling a little under the weather these last couple of weeks. A heavy cold of decidedly manflu proportions wrought its usual mischief on my joints, which meant much lolling around on the sofa feeling sorry for myself for a while! Thankfully it now all seems to be on the decline, and I was able to get out and about yesterday to enjoy this lovely weather we've been having for what seems like the first time in ages.

Ian is busy trying to use up some of last years leave at the moment so we decided to take advantage of the National Trust membership he was bought for his birthday and trundled down to West Sussex to visit Nymans, something of a gothic pile that was mostly ravaged by fire in 1947. I've decided to very magnanimously adopt it as my new country retreat regardless of the fact that what's left is now an achingly beautiful facade of what once must have been a magnificent abode. The dovecote alone is nearly as big as our house!

Despite it being a weekday, there were a lot of visitors to the property and true to form the National Trust had a proportion of the house cloched under scaffolding, but I managed to grab a few photos for my stock account over on Deviant Art, unencumbered by too much 'clutter,' which I hope will be of some use to people. I use a lot of free stock photos in some of the photoshop work I do so I like the notion of being able to give something back every once in a while. I think clicking on the photos will enable a larger view - it seems to work for me at least!