We visited another National Trust place on Sunday – making decent use of our membership. Very middle class and age of course, but it gets me out of the house. This time we visited Peckover House in Wisbech, 15 minutes down the road. It was small but very interesting – fair bit of Quaker history there, which I find intriguing.

Anyhoo, having visited a few of these places now, here’s a suggestion. How about big stickers are offered to people as they enter, which say “I’m not a talker” on them or something, for people like me that like to wander about reading the information panels at my own pace, and who finds it absolutely toe-curling when well-meaning volunteers approach with their spiel?

That would then free up time for said volunteers to chat with folk like Mrs Briggs, who is more than happy to natter away and is far less grumpy than I.