Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2006-09-17 11:01:17 - Graham Ellis
A misty Sunday morning in Wiltshire - Autumn is here and it'll soon be time to turn on the heating. For us, it will be another long day of preparations for the opening in just 3 weeks time of Well House Manor.
Our bedroom, on the second floor of the old Spa House, looks out through a wrought iron balcony to the gardens below and a whole family of spiders had built their webs in the diamonds. Great droplets of water, condensing on the silky joints, added to the beauty.
Up at Well House Manor, the spiders have been busy too. The house, set back from the road, looked vague in the mist as I unlocked the site; the team working on the staircase should be in there today - like the railways where important junctions are renewed at the weekends, so it is with the risers and banisters.
A skip remains outside the manor, with final rubbish piled high; I've loct count of the number of skips we've had in the past 3 and a half months, but I think we're down to just one or two more now. And the contents which were, in the early days, old fixtures and fittings and rotted plaster have now become wood offcuts and builder's waste - no longer old material, but fresh and new to reflect Well House Manor as a whole. Once we get rid of the last skip, I'll post some pictures.
A misty Sunday morning in Wiltshire - Autumn is here and it'll soon be time to turn on the heating. For us, it will be another long day of preparations for the opening in just 3 weeks time of Well House Manor.
Up at Well House Manor, the spiders have been busy too. The house, set back from the road, looked vague in the mist as I unlocked the site; the team working on the staircase should be in there today - like the railways where important junctions are renewed at the weekends, so it is with the risers and banisters.