Knightshayes

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.” 
Rumi 

Woke to find the road outside our room had turned into a small river, the road and the railway line nearby was flooded after the torrential rain overnight; the automatic barriers were permanently down (blocking the road crossing) with red lights were flashing. Adjacent fields were also flooded. After a quick breakfast we headed out towards Cullompton, but did a U turn after a call from our host that the road ahead was flooded too – so back to pick up the M5 at Exeter.
A relatively short journey to Knightshayes, the Gothic Revival stately home (of the Heathcoat Amory family) near Tiverton. Designed by another ‘visionary’, William Burges, who also had a hand in Cardiff Castle of course, much closer to home. Echoes of Cardiff here of course, with animal sculptures – even in the hedgerows and garden topiary – and I walked the remains of the maze (cut into the grass) outside the walled garden.