Both my Nigela and I were obsessed with the series Brideshead Revisited a BBC adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel about Charles Ryder and his friendship with a well to do English family called the Flytes. So today was a little wee pilgrimage to see Castle Howard in Yorkshire where the series was partly filmed. There were some lovely highlights - the walled garden and fountain, the domed chapel and a particularly nice sausage roll in the tea shop. Low lights were - 2 yammering rug rats who - however much we sped up or slowed down - just seemed to stay with us and the second much more serious disappointment was that they did not sell a really good copy of the Brideshead teddy bear - Aloysius. Instead of a manful copy of the lovely and slightly ratty old jointed boy they sold a cheap, floppy old nylon effort instead - which was totally unbearable.
No comments:
Post a Comment