Kedleston Trails

Easter isn't easter without a National Trust egg hunt! As we were short on time, we chose a nearby property to visit and ended up at Kedleston Hall. It was wet and muddy and Pappy was wearing thoroughly inappropriate footwear... nonetheless we soldiered on and completed the quite difficult egg hunt! (Did anyone else find it as hard as we did?!)

Next we visited the house and took part in another trail, this time we were hunting for little fluffy chicks. I think I can speak for most of the families participating that the adults had more fun than the kids did!

It's safe to say we made the most of a wet and miserable day, once again!

Kedleston Hall

Today Louie and I made a return visit to Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. We have visited once before in the cold of winter, but it was freezing so we didn't stay for very long at all! Knowing the forecast was going to be fair today, I packed us a bag and drove us up the motorway. Louie had a grand time doing the wildlife trail, finding animal tracks, leaves, looking inside trees and making rubbings of various leaves and barks.
After a fantastic lunch (cheese toastie with homemade boozy chutney), we ventured in to the house which was just phenomenal. Breathtaking.

Whilst we were in the area (sort of), we dropped into Nottingham to visit Papa at work for the first time. We took him some goodies and joined him on his tea break. Louie made friends with the secretary and played table football and drew some pictures for Papa before we started off for home for a well earned rest!