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...