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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Saturday 30 July 2016

Considering downsizing.....

 Keddlestone Hall, Derbyshire 


There comes a time in many of our lives when one considers whether it would be sensible to downsize – to move into less expansive accommodation. With that in mind we had a look at Keddlestone Hall near Derby. 
 

 A modest entrance .....



 Details of one of the pillars – fluted after construction

 A view over Capability Brown's garden plot 

 Two youths cavorting in a classical landscape 




 One of Michael Gove's ancestors?

 Informal dining 
 







The house had some attractive features but may be a little cramped for our needs, so we will probably keep looking.....


1 comment:

Susan said...

Keddleston is humungeous, isn't it?! Which is probably just as well, as the first time I visited it, a professional visit with a group of curators, I had dined on Jerusalem artichoke the night before. I'd never had them before and no one had warned me of the anti-social after effects. I spent the whole of my visit disappearing down to the staff toilet located at the end of one wing for a little discreet gastro-intestinal pressure relieving. I must have walked miles that day!