8th April 2013
Our day out at Stourhead House in Wiltshire at the weekend....
In the library at Stourhead House we learn about the man who owned the house and who wrote these books in the 1880s - Richard Colt Hoare - who was so grief stricken after the death of his wife and baby son and grandfather that he left his other young son to travel round Europe for 6 years. Needless to say he and his grown up son had a very 'difficult' relationship according to the letters flying between them...
The "Pope's Cabinet" - inlaid with amazing semi-precious stones and lots of secret drawers..
Chandelier....
Mallard on the lake
which my husband limped around with mysterious pains in his foot.....me taking one giant step at a time.....breathing in the beauty breathing out my unreasonable irritation......
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