Today was Castle Howard, which was used for both the TV and film versions of Brideshead Revisited. Lovely grounds with lots of rhododendrons in flower. The house was interesting but quite run-down inside and out. It looks like it needs a great deal of money spending on it.
They were showing an exhibition on the women of Castle Howard. Diva thought it had been put together by a man, because it was nearly all about their lives with men and even judged them in dynastic terms'. There was little about the female servants and had the sweeping comment 'nothing is known about the individual servants', which cannot possibly be true.
We had showers of rain, a cold wind and hailstones. In the middle of May.
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