This is why so many castles now have tours/tea/guest rooms, etc.
And/or have been handed over to the National Trust.
Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.
Trick ,'First Date'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2013 8:46:09 am PDT #6463 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2013 8:47:19 am PDT #6464 of 30000
brillig
There's a BBC series called Country House Revealed, where they go through some country houses that aren't open to the public. There's one that's suffering subsidence from wartime coal mining in the front lawn and another one where the owner is trying to restore it. It shows a lot of the dilapidated rooms.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2013 8:49:51 am PDT #6465 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Overall, I'm willing to argue that a $2m apartment in Williamsburg is a better value than a $2m castle in the south of France. Not for square footage or bragging rights, but for an actual useful place to live.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2013 9:01:12 am PDT #6466 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You are clearly insane.
Amy - Sep 24, 2013 9:02:53 am PDT #6467 of 30000
Because books.
None of you are invited to my castle. Hmph.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 9:07:13 am PDT #6468 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
an actual useful place to live.
Well, if you're going to change the ground rules...
ita, your people in Kenya are amazing. I kind of want her around me at all times.
When we visited, her husband was driving us through downtown Nairobi and suddenly we heard reports of machine gun fire. Like, not news reports--the sounds of machine guns. Which I could have said, but why backspace when you can ramble? ANYWAY. Machine guns go off, somewhere. Everyone but two of us in the Range Rover duck. The driver, S's husband, pulls a U-turn over the embankment (he showed me what the U in SUV meant that week, between this and the Rift Valley) between lanes and jets out of the area. Me, I'm meerkatting to see if I can find where the ruckus is.
Yes, I'm an idiot. But I am the idiot who taught him basic fighting skills with his collapsible batons, and it might be the most useful lesson I ever taught, and the best remunerated I would ever be.
msbelle - Sep 24, 2013 9:13:04 am PDT #6469 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
This is where I mention, houses are about $95/sq ft in my area... and lower, of course.
msbelle - Sep 24, 2013 9:29:16 am PDT #6470 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
and there is a house down the street from me for sale.
Theodosia - Sep 24, 2013 9:30:27 am PDT #6471 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
msbelle, that's where we come up against the "is it really worth it to live there?" question -- not that you're not a BIG ATTRACTION to the area, but for me the hot humid weather, not to mention the local politics and social support are deal breakers.
(Whereas the South of France has good social support, wonderful weather. My lack of French could be worked on, since if I can magically conjure enough money to buy my own castle, I'll conjure enough more to hire an in-house language tutor.)
Theodosia - Sep 24, 2013 9:31:24 am PDT #6472 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Plus, I've been told and choose to believe, older women get treated respectfully in France.