We went to Wrest Park today to see a Narnia themed event there. We had lunch on the way, Virginia had booked a Toby Carvery and was looking forward to that, but we were disappointed on arrival. They had a problem with their kitchens so we had to repair to a nearby Harvester. Which was okay but not the promised carvery. My arithmetic went wrong when calculating the tip but I did mathematics at university.

Google Maps found us Wrest Park okay, but we were taken aback by driving down a mud track to reach the damp grass we had to park on. We worried for our new Kia hybrid that it might get stuck. There was a certain paucity of signage there, we guessed (correctly) as to how to enter. Wrest Park as ex-stately homes go has a splendid vista from the house looking down an avenue to a far rotunda beyond a lake. There was a parterre and statues to admire. However the Narnia event was a little underwhelming. Perhaps one needed the imagination of a child to create magic out of thin air. I felt more could have been done - but what they could do was limited by the geometry of Wrest Park and their resources.

We wandered round the grounds where roughly sketched Narnia images on 2D shapes had been dotted around, got as far as the lake, avoided a meagre funfair, then returned safely home.

Wrest Park house

Looking down the avenue

Inside the Narnia festooned house

A Narnian table?

Aslan at bay

Topiary and a small Ferris wheel