Today(Oct13th) Steve and I went to Calke Abbey, a National Trust "unstately home", because it has been left exactly as it was when the family moved out. It was a huge Baroque mansion with underground tunnels and a clutter of 18th century furniture and paintings, as well as an enormous collection of stuffed birds.Apparently the death duties were £25 million and almost half of their collection was sold to pay these. We went through Repton, which had a prestigious private school and a lovely old church. At night we went to a barn dance, complete with a caller to raise funds for the local church. Off to North Yorkshire all this week, so probably no wi- fi and thus no blogs for a while!
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