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A swatch of magnificent Tudor brickwork at Okenhill Hall - this is where I went today instead of tending and tilling the vegetable plot.
The house is fabulous - apparantly in the Domesday book, the garden and woods tasteful and superb and the sandwiches and cakes, the stuff of dreams.