Bench series #3

Still on the Garden theme:

Walmer castle
Walmer Castle, Kent

If you would like to join in with the Bench photo challenge then take a look at my Bench Series page where you will find everything you want to know (haha if only…)

  • Create your own post and title it Bench Series: January
  • Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
  • Add the tag ‘bench series’ so everyone can find the benches easily in the WP Reader
  • Get your post in by the end of the month, as the new bench theme comes out on the first Sunday in February

I look forward to resting my feet all around the world!

Have a look at Sydney’s Botanic Garden with Elizabeth
Debbie takes us to Kew Gardens in London
Pauline shows us all the benches in her beautiful rainforest garden.
Gilly is relaxing in Penshurst Place on a beautiful summers day.
Ailsa shows us a very unusual bench in the green of a lawn in Charlston
and Meg shows us one complete with a cow!

Thanks folks for joining in so I don’t feel like “Billy no-mates”

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Heyjude

I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

54 thoughts on “Bench series #3”

  1. I had a walk around Walmer Castle last September, but I didn’t sit on that bench Jude. Looks like a good one, nice and solid. The Joggling Board bench is certainly unusual. As for Kew, it might be good value at £9.50, but I remember when you used to put an old penny in a turnstile to get in!
    Regards as always, Pete. x

    1. I liked Walmer Castle and it has lovely grounds too. And thanks for the little history lesson – old penny/turnstile! Now that takes me back…

    1. Well there’s nothing preventing you showing them as long as the bench is in a garden this month. I have nothing against boys… 😉

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  9. Lovely bench, I like all the warm colour tones, even the bears breeches match. That looks like an interesting building as well.
    February’s black and white entry will need some good contrasts, I’d better start looking 🙂

    1. Now why didn’t I know that was the common name for Acanthus mollis? It’s a fab plant!

      And Walmer Castle is very interesting, it was the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and The Duke of Wellington spent many years there. And more recently the Queen Mother used to like visiting. The building was built by Henry VIII in 1539–1540 as an artillery fortress which may explain the unusual shape.

  10. Billy no-mates…that’s a new one for me. Here in Australia we say Nigel No-friends. And often it’s just Nigel…”I’ll be a Nigel.” Apologies to all the Nigels of the world.

    Nice bench too.

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