The dining room at Greys Court hosts a tea party a la Alice in Wonderland with a table groaning (if that was possible) under the weight of stacked cups and saucers and mounds of knitted cakes.

Greys Court is a Tudor house near Henley-on-Thames. In the 1930s it was the home of Sir Felix and Lady Elizabeth Brunner and their four boys. The National Trust has kept the house as if it still was a family home, in fact the home of that very family.

When I visited, the rooms were decorated to showcase the books that Lady Brunner loved as a little girl and which she wrote about in her memoirs. Alice in Wonderland was one of her favourites.

In one of the bedrooms, the cushions tell visitors about the family by using embroidery, one of Lady Brunner’s favourite pastimes.

I loved the house and admired the creativity of the curator in charge of exhibits. It turns the house into one of those places to which you will return over and over again.