The Trading Post is a very reasonably priced carvery pub / restaurant with helpful young staff, well laid out tables, and an ample car park close to where my father was in a care home in Kettering. We would go there more often except when we visited Dad we often went on to see my sister nearby. Recommended.

Virginia and I went to see the unfinished Elizabethan mansion of Lyveden New Bield belonging to the National Trust. The rains held off, and it was clear (but cold on the exposed hilltop the mansion is built on.) The mansion was being built for Sir Thomas Tresham, but abandoned on his death in 1605. The family fell on hard times, particularly as the son was involved in the Gunpowder Plot and died in the Tower of London. The mansion against all the odds survived in its unfinished state til the National Trust bought it.