this weekend we went up to the cotswolds, in the lovely cool, windy UK autumn weather. but at least it wasn't wet. we drove up through oxfordshire and gloucestershire, through the lovely small stone towns, with the leaves all a-changing colours. our destination was a little national trust site called Chedworth Roman villa, a 4th century roman style villa and bath house. it was initially excavated in the victorian era, and the national trust have preserved as much of the victorian history as the roman history. there is a victorian house built in the middle as a museum. they have kept the restorations/rebuilding that the victorians attempt, and use some of the original names for rooms that the victorians deduced.
The main dining room mosaics and some exposed hypocaust (lovely underfloor heating)
The museum and the view from the villa
The autumnal colours
Cotswolds life...
More autumn colours in the rolling valleys of the cotswolds...
Clifton Hampden church, on the Thames, on Adam's daily drive to work (when there aren't floods etc)
on saturday night, we went to a games night at a friends place in oxford. as usual adam and i got overly competitive. there were fireworks and mulled wine. there was jenga and monkeys and snakes and ladders. the aussies won pictionary, which was made extra entertaining with the use of a whiteboard. the boys won articulate, which was very fun and much recommended.
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