The next day after breakfast (Ginny did the eggs well done) we went to Hinton Ampner, a National Trust place. Georgian style place built in the 1960s, not massive but full of eclectic beauty and porcelain and semiprecious stones embedded into wood. Plenty of fine topiary in the gardens but we couldn't walk far as they were afraid of the damage from footfalls after rain. Had a dubious sausage roll - the jacket potato looked far better. Then onto Jane Austen's house at Chawton, saw the 12-sided small frail table on which she wrote and rewrote her masterpieces. A different era. She and Cassandra left school at 11! Then onto another kind of temple - Sainsburys in Alton to get ready meals for the evening. We played Scrabble.