Dr Barnado's coffee morning

This has become quite an institution in our area.  Every year an historic house, usually private, is opened to over 400 people to raise money for Dr Barnado's.  This year it was held at Wigborough Manor near South Petherton.   There were flower arrangements in each room that one could buy and take away at the end, plant, cake  and vegetable stalls, raffles and of course coffee and homemade biscuits outside in the sunshine.

Wigborough Hall is a Grade I Elizabethan manor house built in local Ham stone with Welsh slate roofs  by Henry Compton in 1585.  It has of course been added to and restored over the years but there were some beautiful ornate plaster ceilings in some of the rooms.  The extra photos show the house and a clematis growing in the garden.

Oh, by the way, that calf we think has got an infection so we have injected it.