Derby Evening Telegraph - Lost In A Field Of Dreams
06/08/2004
I don’t know if the good folk of Postern House Farm have seen Field of Dreams but there must have been a little touch of Kevin Costner about at least one member of the family this summer. As Ray Kinsella in the Oscar-nominated film, Costner hears voices telling him, “If you build it, it will come,” – so he rips up several corn fields and builds a baseball diamond outside his farmhouse. Tatenhill is a long way from Iowa and baseball remains a mystery in East Staffordshire but there are echoes of Kinsella’s madness. Master designer Adrian Fisher has been called upon to design a fiendish maze, which has been skilfully cut into the shoulder high crop. It’s in the shape of a spaceman and there’s an alien code puzzle to follow if you want to crack the maze. If your only experience of mazes is a box hedge pattern in a stately home, then you are in for a shock. There are around 3 miles of paths in this maze and, before you enter , you are given a briefing that warns you to take along a drink and a flag – in case you get hopelessly lost and have to be rescued.….It’s all rather cleverly put together and there are several points where you can climb steps to get your bearings, or ‘call’ for help on plastic tube ‘phones’.….
There’s plenty of free parking, a chance to by souvenirs, ice creams, drinks and snacks (plus covered seating) and several things to keep the kids entertained before and after. On the day we were there, our children enjoyed a bouncy castle, a football game, water pistols a mini assault course and space hoppers.
Article by Nigel Prowlson of the Derby Evening Telegraph
Tom surveys the "Field Of Dreams"