More Penshurst

Some bits and bobs from our recent visit to Penshurst Place, near Tunbridge Wells.

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A playground fad which has swept the primary schools of Tunbridge Wells. Cards with come with some particular sort of confectionary and which are collected and swapped. It seems that one of these fads lasts around a year before it fades away in the face of the next one. I have failed to find out what confectionary they come from, but perhaps quality time at reference 1 would do the business.

Cards snapped on the tables outside the café set up in one of the outhouses of the main house. Not National Trust, but much the same sort of format as Polesden Lacey, with the variation that we were driven outside by the noise inside, presumably put on to keep the young people working the place on-side.

I must make enquiries about whether these cards have reached Stamford Green, here in Epsom.

Mistletoe

Mistletoe infestations have reached Kent. A danger to small boys in that when in the vicinity of one they are apt to be grabbed by older female relatives for hugs and worse.

PS: in one of the suburban roads just to the north east of Mount Ephraim, I am reasonably sure that I saw a hawk of some sort sitting in the top of a large old tree in someone's back garden. Not the sort of thing that one expects here in Epsom. Furthermore, we were also accosted by a friendly, mixed-age team from the women's equality party, canvassing for the upcoming local elections. Something else that one does not expect here in Epsom.

Reference 1: http://www.bearcards.co.uk/.

Reference 2: http://www.penshurstplace.com/. Owned by Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle, Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, proud to be free of the National Trust, but is associated with the RHS, an association which helped to get me in for free.

Reference 3: http://www.womensequality.org.uk/tunbridgewells.

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