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Mottisfont Abbey
This is Mottisfont Abbey. Its garden also contains the national collection of old roses. I go every year, make lists, take too many pictures, and complain about the tourists. * This year I had at least three friends I’d said ‘Hey, let’s go to Mottisfont this summer’ to. They’d all said varying degrees of ‘yes’. And then none of us got around to it. Penelope finally said, right, it’s already past midsummer, the roses will be going over, get out your diary and choose a day.
Today was the day.
* I’m not a tourist! I live here!