Folly.



















The party at large.



















Some old machinery (for pumping water?).



















Swanbourne Lake (my batteries had run out of power so what follows is an artist's impression). A lake mentioned in the Domesday Book. One of the subjects of a painting by Constable. There is a dredging project ongoing to try and restore the water levels here. You can walk all the way around it, there are rowing boats when there is sufficient water and a tea shop (when there is sufficient tea). I sat down for quite a while on a bench close to the water's edge. One young couple were quite happily feeding the ducks some morsels of dry bread. As they continued to make thier way around and ensure a wide dispersal of their charitable giving they got to a part of the lake where the ducks were just not interested, and despite lobbing lumps into thier breasts, the birdlife was not taking any. The couple, from looking fully contented, moved away in silence, and put away their bags of crumbs.