Maybe he's missing a trick. He could make money by opening his house to the hoi polloi. Look at the Downton Abbey effect on Highclere Castle. Channel the riff raff through the house using roped off areas, with a gift shop at the end. Kerching.
Alternatively he could put blinds up at all the windows, (similar to Powis Castle on Countryfile last night), and stop the great unwashed from peering in at his knick knacks.
Thinking on … it reminds me of the story my late Ma told about the old Duke of Bedford (about three back). He was paid a pretty penny by the council to allow a public road to be constructed across the park at Woburn Abbey from Woburn village to Steppingley … he objected strongly but eventually accepted the money, but said that only wheeled traffic would be allowed ie no pedestrians gawping at the Abbey.
My mother grew up very close by and one sunny summer day in her early teens she and her best friend went for a cycle ride and their route took them through the park … anyone who knows that road will be aware that there’s quite a steep hill at the Steppingley end of the park road … as I said, it was a hot summer day so Ma and her friend got off their bikes to walk up the hill … whereupon they were chased by a gamekeeper with his shotgun!!! You can’t get on a bike halfway up a steep hill so the frightened girls had to run with their bikes all the way to the edge of the park.
Charles Stopford Sackville obviously thinks he’s still in the 1930s.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Some plants are just plain stubborn.😒 I have a young jade plant that I have pinched out several times. Instead of sprouting further down, it sprouts from exactly where I pinched it and tries to continue on its vertical journey but I'm going to win the battle!
Aww, poor little thing, trying its best to do what comes naturally and having to put up with human interference!
There's a great wailing and gnashing of teeth in the press about a football manager calling a female reporter 'good girl'. The reporter herself has said it didn't bother her, but there is no end of others perfectly willing to be offended on her behalf.
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He could make money by opening his house to the hoi polloi. Look at the Downton Abbey effect on Highclere Castle.
Channel the riff raff through the house using roped off areas, with a gift shop at the end. Kerching.
Alternatively he could put blinds up at all the windows, (similar to Powis Castle on Countryfile last night), and stop the great unwashed from peering in at his knick knacks.
My mother grew up very close by and one sunny summer day in her early teens she and her best friend went for a cycle ride and their route took them through the park … anyone who knows that road will be aware that there’s quite a steep hill at the Steppingley end of the park road … as I said, it was a hot summer day so Ma and her friend got off their bikes to walk up the hill … whereupon they were chased by a gamekeeper with his shotgun!!! You can’t get on a bike halfway up a steep hill so the frightened girls had to run with their bikes all the way to the edge of the park.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Aww, poor little thing, trying its best to do what comes naturally and having to put up with human interference!
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'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
People who are paid monthly also provide a day of free labour once every 4 years!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"Moment medical students find out school will be tuition-free"
Doesn't that mean they won't be taught anything or am I just a curmudgeonly old pedant?