I find the heat exhausting. And it's hotter inside the tea room than it is outside. It's ridiculously hot in the conservatory which means no one can sit in there.
So we do a lot more walking.
Which makes us even more tired.
Earlier on this week we had a seriously showery day.
The sort of day for which we keep an umbrella stand with a few umbrellas standing in it - so that people can borrow a brolly if they're caught without one.
An Australian couple, who'd just had lunch, started to panic when they saw that their prized umbrella had vanished from the stand. It was an expensive one, they told me, a large one, an Aston Martin one no less. They were concerned it had been stolen.
In fact it had been taken by a couple for their walk to the visitors' centre in the rain. They had asked if they could borrow one. They promised they would leave it at the centre and one of the lovely English Heritage staff would return it to us the next day. As usual.
But instead of taking one of ours they happened to choose the jolly expensive, large, Aston Martin one. Well, wouldn't you?
I called the centre.
It had just been handed in, wet but undamaged.
The Aussies set off quickly for their reunion.
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