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Continuing Adventures Away From Home

Last week we were living a Scottish Georgian dream..  renting an amazing stately home just south of Glasgow... Auchinleck House. It is a very large grand affair with a large number of cosy sitting rooms a very large general living room - well equipped kitchen and posh dining room.  It sleeps 13, there actually 10 pf us here and Dr Fred and I have an enormous room with a (faux) four poster bed.... Its only faux because the curtains are purely decorative but its still lovely.  The whole house is stunning.  In keeping with its history, the furniture - while standard Landmark trust are supplemented with nice wooden closets and oil painted portraits pf unidentified often stern looking people.  Externally its a really imposing looking building with glorious stone work and at each corner there is a kind of gatehouse which all have fabulous ornemental cuppola type decoration... along with stone balks and huge ston...