Fête
Champêtre Wotton
House 8th August 2010
We were blessed with a beautiful day and this brought out a delightful array of open cars, Jaguars, Aston Martins, model T Ford’s, Lancias, Bentley’s and of course the Rolls Royce’s.
Some of the cars
With Wotton House as a back drop and the lake in the fore ground it is a perfect setting even though this year Tim was not able to come with his Tiger Moth. One friend did fly over but he rather cautiously kept to around 500 feet. He took an interesting picture showing the house and both lakes.
Lots of picnics developed round cars ranging from the sophisticated to the simple. The pictures from this year and previous years gives some feel for the delightful occasion now in its 4th Year. Again the Gladstone family opened the house to those who wanted to look round and David’s easy manner made the organisation simple |
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Wotton from the air |
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Sadly a very dry summer meant that the water level on the lake was about 18” below its normal level. This meant it was difficult to launch boats and we in fact only launched the Thames skiff Louisa. With pond weed and the low water level she grounded quite often and picked up a lot of weed on the oars with every stroke. We therefore decided not to launch the Venetian boats. Its one thing sitting down and picking weed up on the oar but quite another when you are standing perched on the stern with nothing to hold your oar into the Forcole.
