Each month the ThamesMOG visit a different property in the Thames Valley area and last Sunday we visited Chawton House. Like many centres, ThamesMOG arranges some of its events months in advance, with little or no knowledge of what the weather conditions will be like on the day.

We had arranged our visit to Chawton House to coincide with their snowdrop walks garden opening in aid of the National Garden Scheme. With the especially early spring this year we were concerned that the snowdrops may be over before we arrived, this coupled with the impact from storms Ciara and Dennis, a very changeable weather forecast, and with the impending effect of the coronavirus, we could not guarantee if any Morgans would appear, or if their journey would be wasted.

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Sunday morning greeted us with showers, so it was a very pleasant surprise to find Morgans already parked in pride of place, in front of Chawton House. We were joined by hardy souls from ThamesMOG, SogMOG and LogMOG, some in their Morgans, and some arriving in their tin tops. The coffee shop was our first port of call, and once we had been revitalised, the sun had come out and we had an enjoyable stroll around the gardens and admired the snowdrops, which did not seem to have suffered from the battering of the storms in the previous three weeks. Apparently snowdrops prefer dampish soil. Some also took time to explore Chawton House.

So impressed were we with our visit that LogMOG are arranging, with SogMog and ThamesMOG, a mid-week trip to Chawton and Jane Austen's House Museum this summer.

Steve A11OGE Red 1989 4/4 4 seater

'A Morgan is for life, not just for Sundays'