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Times photographer James GlossopSeen by drone, the elaborate landscaped gardens at Harewood House, West YorkshireJB Autissier/AvalonJessica Springsteen, an Olym
Birthdays. Love them or hate them? I'm with the latter. I'd much rather swerve the entire thing. Let the day pass like any other. Actually, no. That's worse, isn't it? Or is it? This year, I got ahead of the problem and booked myself (and my daughter Plum, 11) a weekend away at the country-house hotel, Lucknam Park. I chose this particular British Palladian mansion for my 'special day' because it is exactly that, special. Yet it doesn't make a song and dance about it. Lucknam Park's mile-long tree-lined drive is one of the things I love most about the place. Iron gates gently buzz open and there it is: long, stately, inviting, flanked by fields of horses and frost-covered lawns. Speed bumps prohibit drivers from making their approach at anything other than a crawl, and the anticipation is only heightened by huge trees leaning in as if to inspect new arrivals. We're forced to slow down even further when we spot a family of deer among the tree