St Mary's Pleasance

As last year, our choir director kindly invited the choir members to  his home near Haddington, meeting at St Mary's church and visiting the gardens at St Mary's Pleasance, 'a private garden maintained for the public by Haddington Garden Trust, a charity that relies on grants, donations and gifts to maintain and develop the garden. The garden occupies 1.6 acres between St. Mary's Churchyard, Lady Kitty's Garden and Haddington House, which dates from 1648 and is the oldest dwelling in Haddington. Some of the garden’s boundary walls were built by Napoleonic prisoners of war'.

We then visited the church to wander round and sing an anthem (Bruckner's Locus Iste) before heading off to his house for a delicious buffet lunch followed by a brisk walk to the fort.

Thank you, G, for a lovely day.