In Society at the Big House
Aug. 7th, 2020 05:27 pmWritten at tea time on Thursday 6th August, with a mug of Earl Grey (thank you, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler) in the Library at Auchinleck House: posted at the same hour the following day on Bute, when connectivity even allows the insertion of a picture or two.
Short version: it has been a splendid few days, in magnificent surroundings and excellent company - rather more company than I have been accustomed to of late, and I may be suffering from a touch of burn-out. But just a touch, and if we escape with no worse after-effects than that, it will have been well worth it.
Longer version - ( under the cut. )
So here we are on our last evening, and soon we will dine for the last time in the dining room (which has windows on three sides of the house) and sort ourselves out for packing up and moving on, J. either home or not quite yet, as the fancy takes her, the other four of us to Bute and a cottage which will be nothing like as palatial as our current home, but should at least have wi-fi.
durham_rambler) in the Library at Auchinleck House: posted at the same hour the following day on Bute, when connectivity even allows the insertion of a picture or two.Short version: it has been a splendid few days, in magnificent surroundings and excellent company - rather more company than I have been accustomed to of late, and I may be suffering from a touch of burn-out. But just a touch, and if we escape with no worse after-effects than that, it will have been well worth it.
Longer version - ( under the cut. )
So here we are on our last evening, and soon we will dine for the last time in the dining room (which has windows on three sides of the house) and sort ourselves out for packing up and moving on, J. either home or not quite yet, as the fancy takes her, the other four of us to Bute and a cottage which will be nothing like as palatial as our current home, but should at least have wi-fi.
