I wasn't aware that Thomas Hardy had any children.

@@BillsPhoneTeignmouth Hi Bill hope you're well and thanks for commenting. It's definitely a beautiful place, quite difficult to get too down a few country lanes. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area. Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen

@@shawnheppenstall3258 Hi Shawn hope you're well and thanks for your kind comment. It's a great place to visit not so easy to photograph though,there were tours around 30 minutes so, whilst 1 tour was inside the next 1 was outside starting the first part of their tour. I did enjoy doing the video as normal I concentrate on photography. Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen

@@PhilipOlsen11 Hi Phil hope you're well and thanks for commenting. Animals in a field is that is needed to stop Karen concentrating on what she's doing. Thomas Hardys cottage is definitely worth a visit. Best wishes stay safe Jon and Karen

Hi Keith hope your well and thanks for commenting. Defo worth a visit if you get a chance, there are some great photo oppertunities but I would imagine it gets very busy durning the summer holidays. I have several camera bags where the waste strap seems to have shrunk, they must all use the same material & manufacture. To be honest keith she was to busy looking at the sheep in the field and not watching where she was going. Best wishes stay safe Jon & Karen.

Hi Ian hope you're well and thanks for commenting. Opening times are limited, i think it's open more during the summer holidays. I've never read any of this books but we did buy some on our visit as they were on offer, buy1 get 1 free. If you want a tour you have to book, we managed to tag on to one the had just started. This was the first video i'd shot in a while using the AX53 so it was a bit shaky. Best wishes stay safe Jon.

@iancraig That is the beauty of the Hardy novels, the description of the countryside. You need to be less impatient. I do like the 1967 film version of "Far from the Madding Crowd", with Alan Bates, Terence Stamp , Peter Finch and Julie Christie, the more recent version with Carey Mulligan is woke feminist rubbish, at least the old version follows the book. I liked the character Gabriel Oak, so much , that when my second son was born I called him Gabriel.I suggest that you persevere with reading the Hardy novels. "Desperate Remedies" is quite an exciting one.

I’ve read every one of his books Jeanne. I also prefer the 1967 film. There was also a lovely version I saw of The Mayor of Casterbridge. Really well done. Poor old Gabriel and his sheep going over because of the dog in Tess! She treated him so badly too. He wrote such lovely characters. I think they were serialised in a paper which encouraged the descriptive stuff as well. I was hooked on Jude the Obscure. I’ve read it three times. In particular, Sue’s speeches. Those preambles were brilliant. The kids, ‘Because we are too many’ haunts me. When I saw the film of this, literally, the hairs on my neck went up and I couldn’t watch. Even thinking about it now makes me feel terrible. In particular, I struggle with the earlier novels. Under the Greenwood Tree and The Woodlanders were hard for me to stay with. But I think he was serialising them for a paper.

Hi Steve hope you're well 7 thanks for commenting. Worth a visit mate, great photo oppertunities, we'll defo be going back. Karen wasn't looking where she was going, to busy looking at the animals on the farm, I didn't even notice she'd fallen over, until i heard the cursing. Best Wishes stay safe Jon & Karen