Found while looking for something else (it's what the internets are for)

[shewhomust]

"'We shall miss her vulgarity and solecisms,' Chips Channon observed of Lady Scarbrough when she died. A contemporary of hers, the late Sir Richard Sykes, Bt, of Sledmere, recalled her saying once: 'You must come to Lumley. It's castrated all over with enormous flying buttocks.'"

The Telegraph, 28.10.2000

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A visit to Lumley must have been a memorable experience.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That's certainly one word for it!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Lol! She sounds like a character.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Making the most of a walk-on part in someone else's obituary.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Coo!

Nine

"Enormous flying buttocks"

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Is that not a reference to helenraven's latest post?