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shewhomust) wrote2025-06-16 05:41 pm
shewhomust) wrote2025-06-16 05:41 pm
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If it's midsummer, this must be...
After all the busy-ness and the not-ready of the last week, we are on Lindisfarne and are spending the week here: yes, I'm a bit disoriented by the week starting and ending on Monday, but that's when the cottage was available. So D. and valydiarosada drove up to Durham yesterday, and we had dinner together, and this morning they set off and visited Wallington (which is almost on the way) and we finished our packing and were away from home by one o' clock. And we all met again on the island at four, which is when we were allowed into our cottage.
We are staying at St Oswald's Cottage - in fact, that picture of the kitchen looking out of the door is very much the view I have as I sit typing this at the kitchen table, though it makes the room look more spacious than it is. The cottage was designed by Lutyens to accommodate the couple who were caretakers at the castle. It is bigger on the inside: you enter through the kitchen, but beyond the living room there is a passageway which leads to the first bathroom and a spacious bedroom; and behind a door there is another passageway, leading to a single bedroom; and another door leads to another bathroom, and another enormous bedroom beyond that.
So that's all very grand. And I am sitting here while D. bustles about the kitchen making dinner. Tomorrow it will be my turn to cook, but with luck by then D. will have found out where everything is (or warned me about what we don't have). I have no thoughts about how we will spend the week - well, not quite, I do have some thoughts. Also later in the week there will be more visitors. But meanwhile, I shall be lazy.
valydiarosada drove up to Durham yesterday, and we had dinner together, and this morning they set off and visited Wallington (which is almost on the way) and we finished our packing and were away from home by one o' clock. And we all met again on the island at four, which is when we were allowed into our cottage.We are staying at St Oswald's Cottage - in fact, that picture of the kitchen looking out of the door is very much the view I have as I sit typing this at the kitchen table, though it makes the room look more spacious than it is. The cottage was designed by Lutyens to accommodate the couple who were caretakers at the castle. It is bigger on the inside: you enter through the kitchen, but beyond the living room there is a passageway which leads to the first bathroom and a spacious bedroom; and behind a door there is another passageway, leading to a single bedroom; and another door leads to another bathroom, and another enormous bedroom beyond that.
So that's all very grand. And I am sitting here while D. bustles about the kitchen making dinner. Tomorrow it will be my turn to cook, but with luck by then D. will have found out where everything is (or warned me about what we don't have). I have no thoughts about how we will spend the week - well, not quite, I do have some thoughts. Also later in the week there will be more visitors. But meanwhile, I shall be lazy.
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Lovely place! I hope you have an enjoyable and relaxing week.
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I'm glad you were able to decipher it anyway!
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Yup, I can read raw HTML just fine, but figured you'd want to know. Have a great holiday!