Enjoying some peace and quiet in a lovely setting.
The guidebook tells me that the first dinner to be held in ‘The Great Dining Room’ at Chatsworth was for the 13-year old Princess Victoria:
It was her first adult dinner and there was a cooked rehearsal the day before. The 6th Duke wrote, “it is like dining in a giant trunk and you expect the lid to open”.
He brought portraits by van Dyck from his other houses to hang on the walls. In 1996-2001, Chatsworth’s textile team replaced the damaged silk on the walls and made new window curtains, exact copies of the 6th Duke’s.
The current Duke and Duchess still use the room to host dinners on very special occasions.
As you can see there are several frames in the dining room.
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27 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2010
I thought it would be a nice change to pop up to the local town centre during lunchtime today so that I could get something interesting for my lunch and also dinner this evening. I specifically remembered not to take the route where the roadworks were so that I didn’t get delayed. I was able to park easily and make my way to M&S where I chose my lunch quite quickly. It took me a little longer to choose and evening meal but that is because I was trying to combine healthy with interesting and the meals were in two separate places. Eventually I plumped, made my way to the till and paid.
I was doing quite well for time until I got to the ticket machine. I was struggling with my bags and purse and the ticket didn’t go in the machine properly the first time. I tried again and the machine gobbled the ticket just as I looked up and noticed on the visual display ‘machine out of order please use another machine‘. The ticket was stuck and the intercom line engaged! Eventually I got to talk to someone who told me that the machine was jammed and that someone was already on the way to sort it out. I waited and told several other shoppers who came to use the machine what was going on. I was also able to direct them to the nearest ticket machine, which is actually right back by the shops. I waited a little more and told more shoppers what was going on…
Suddenly the intercom buzzed at me, I was told that the person who was coming to assist had got delayed and that I should get into my car and make my way to the exit, then ring the intercom from there! Which I did and was let out of the car park.
Phew I had escaped eventually. Perhaps the moral of the story is I should have stayed at work and read my book as usual?
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2010
The title is a bit of a misnomer this week, the scales tell me I have put on 1.5lb although I am not quite sure where. Perhaps all that eating out is catching up with me… I am not to worried though and I have warned the scales to be on their best behaviour next week.
9 Comments CherryPie on Aug 26th 2010
This fountain is powered by the pressure of the water dropping 122 metres, through a 40 centimetre iron pipe made from a man-made lake. The fountain can reach a height of 90 metres although it is usually to half that height to conserve water. In the summer when water is scarce the hours that the fountain is displayed are sometimes limited for the same reason.
13 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2010
