title	The Tiles of Ickworth House, Horringer, Suffolk - 30th November 2019
intro	We're off to Ickworth House, near Horringer in Suffolk, for another walk around. This time, the rotunda is completely covered in scaffolding - something which can be annoying if it's the first time you've been somewhere, but which in this case is quite interesting simply because the scale of the scaffolding job itself is truly stunning. Also, the National Trust is flogging off some of the 40 tons of old slate tiles from the roof, which are being replaced, for a modest sum, so we pick up a couple to do some painting on or something. We also do the "life below stairs" tour, which we'd actually done before, but it's true what the guide said: each one of them has a different take on it, so it's still interesting to do.
imgc5376	Isobel's mushrooms are doing well
imgc5382	Prět à Pousser mushrooms in a box
imgp7877	Boris - Stripey Cat - stares out of the back door
imgp7879	A tree and a carpet of leaves
imgp7882	Nice autumn leaves on the Albana walk
imgp7888	Harry's got a big stick
imgp7893	Harry and Fred look at dens
imgp7899	Harry looks up at a den
imgp7904	Harry and Isobel wander off
imgp7908	We roam the woods
imgp7912	A view of the Suffolk countryside
imgp7915	Isobel, Fred and Harry tread a misty path
imgp7919	Harry and Fred take a break
imgp7923	The boys climb a tree
imgp7924	Bright green hedges
imgp7926	Fred points to a stump that looks like a fish head
imgp7930	Ribbony fungi
imgp7932	Some more fungi, which look like sea-shells
imgp7935	A twisty tree stump
imgp7936	A carpet of autumn, picked out by the low sun
imgp7940	We find some huge mushrooms off the path
imgp7943	Our first close-up of the truly epic scaffolding
imgp7947	The boys look at books in the NT shop
imgp7949	Harry and Isobel in the NT shop
imgp7955	We stop for a hot drink and snacks in the Orangery
imgp7956	Harry looks up
imgp7958	Outside, there's a cute baby in a plant pot
imgp7959	Harry peers out of the window
imgp7964	In the cellars of Ickworth
imgp7967	Some of Ickworth's epic plumbing
imgp7969	Fred peers into an underground water tank
imgp7971	Christmas socks
imgp7977	Harry wants a go of Santa's chair
imgp7978	Fred nabs the prime seat yet again
imgp7980	The coat's a bit oversized, but the hat fits
imgp7981	A kitchen range is explained
imgp7986	Harry pokes an old recipe book
imgp7988	The boys are back at the knives and stabbing weapons
imgp7990	Down the bricked corridors of "below stairs"
imgp7991	The boys leg it up the stairs
imgp7992	Fred looks at calendars back in the NT shop
imgp7993	Some of the old and new roof tiles
imgp7997	Outside there are loads more tiles in boxes
imgp8004	A tree is lit up in purple
imgp8006	Sheep graze in an autumn scene
imgp8010	A brave soul reads a book outside
imgp8011	A purple urn in the stumpary
imgp8014	Isobel, Harry and Fred in the illuminated stumpery
imgp8016	More purple trees
imgp8017	Isobel roams around in the lights
imgp8021	A tree stump is lit up in red
imgp8023	The rotunda is quite different with its covering
imgp8024	Twinkly lights on the way to a garden shelter
imgp8029	There are thousands of scaffolding poles involved
imgp8030	The Ickworth orangery
imgp8031	We walk back past the orangery