Plantation garden

We have been looking for an opportunity to learn Spanish, and had contacted a group within the Norwich U3A.  Yesterday, the organiser contacted us and suggested we come along at 2pm today.  W - who had organised this - had stressed that we are complete beginners.  We arrived, and it quickly became clear that this is an established group, and they were not really in a position to cope with beginners, so we left very soon.

As we drove back through Norwich, I suggested we pop into Plantation Garden.  We've been there before, though not recently.  It really is remarkably peaceful, considering that it is in the centre of Norwich.  Though today it was not as peaceful as sometimes due to an excess of rather noisy children letting off their last dregs of energy before returning to school.

I love this Gothic fountain, now lovingly restored by the volunteers who have rebuilt the entire garden.  The garden was created by Henry Trevor in the second half of the 19th Century.  He used an old chalk quarry, so the garden is sheltered from the surroundings, and he made really imaginative use of broken bricks and stones that were cast off from other building works - see extra.

I've back blipped for yesterday should you be interested to look.