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Re-posted from my wordpress blog. Originally posted on 24\/09\/2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex is an interesting place. You pay at a gate outside the car park to go into the grounds and then you pay at the Castle entrance for a tour of the Castle. I didn’t go in, as I was far more interested in the grounds and I had a good explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They had a rose garden that seemed to be devoted to sundials as well, there was a massive one in the middle of the garden. I wondered whether I could take it home, however was told no. For multiple reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At some point, I heard a Peacock and couldn’t work out where it was. I did see a peahen, but it wasn’t the bird making the noise. Turned out the culprit was half way up a tree, I didn’t even know these birds could fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a very hot day and I wanted to have a paddle in a tiny pond that was just the right size for me but decided against it when lunch was mentioned. My friends had packed a picnic and we each had a pork pie, which was the same size as my head, so as usual had to share with someone. There were also some sweet chili peanuts and I had a couple, they were really nice but you couldn’t eat many at one time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Magic Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They also have something called a Magic Garden, but unfortunately this garden looked a little dead when I went. Most likely due to the recent heat wave England had been through. The whole garden was covered so that probably didn’t help. They did have some giant wooden mushrooms that I could sit on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were a lot of chestnut trees as well, I managed to get a photo of me sitting in a hollow in one of them as many were very old, some were from the 1700s. One was very twisted because it was struck by lightning but I couldn’t tell which one it was as they were all very similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were a lot of different art pieces around the garden, mostly sculptures. My favourite was this wooden squirrel, which was similar to the giant mushrooms I found. I’d noticed some catoony signs about and this squirrel had one with a cartoon squirrel underneath it. I wondered if it was part of a kid’s activity. For me though, it was a great place to perch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s a Peacock in this tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the Magic Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Mushroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I have no idea who this is. Any ideas?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Relaxing while waiting for lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From the Sundial Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A strange piece of ‘art’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mini trees!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Re-posted from my wordpress blog. Originally posted on 24\/09\/2018 Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex is an interesting place. You pay at a gate outside the car park to go into the grounds and then you pay at the Castle entrance for a tour of the Castle. I didn’t go in, as I was far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patchys-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchysadventures.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}