A lovely sunny day today, so it’s off to the depths of East Sussex to visit Batemans, the National Trust owned home of Rudyard Kipling.

The volunteers have gone out of their way to decorate the rooms for both Diwali and Christmas:

The gardens are nice for the time of year:

We also wandered down to the water mill:

You can see the hydroelectric generator that Kipling installed to light the house:

And the mill pond:

A nice morning!

Incidentally, we were last there in 2005 with the children: