The torrential rain eases off after breakfast. Sophie doesn't so much trot along the lane as skip along it. Every so often she disappears into a drainage ditch in search of 'delicacies' left by the barn owls. She drinks precariously - and at length - from a large puddle.
Back at home she chases squirrels - noisily.
Her brother sits in the back of the car and wears that long suffering look that brothers wear.
' The Font ' finds the deeds to the little house in Scotland piled up in a kitchen drawer. The history of the folks who've bought and sold it going back to 1618. Why the documents are in a kitchen drawer and not with the solicitors is unknown. The Victorian handwritten deeds the best , starting with a flourish : '' In the name of God. Amen ". Earlier than that and we're into parchment rather than paper and Latin rather than flowery English. Scots names predominate unti the 1920's when English names appear.
What a beautiful picture by an artist I'd never heard of : https://twitter.com/HungaryHeritage/status/962719524293398528
There was champagne in The Rickety Old Farmhouse last night : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3uN5kp7YIQ
8 comments:
There's something incongruous about toasting a Scots victory over the French with champagne! A "wee dram or three" may have been more appropriate!
There again with champagne both Scots and French can be happy !
What an amazing find in the kitchen drawer.
Bertie and I both pleased by the Six Nations results this weekend!
Sadly the video doesn't play - it's not "available". I know that you had something worth celebrating by your, and Gail's, comments, and what better way than with champagne !
What a wonderful history your little house in Scotland has, but the ROF must have quite a few stories to tell too.
I love the handwriting on the deed. Very cool discovery.
Hari Om
17thC then. A very fine heritage... but deeds in the drawer??? One is filled with horror at the possibilities which might have befallen them. Thank goodness they are now in very safe hands. Like the rugby ball and Greiggy and Hoggy and co (despite a breath-stopping first ten minutes)! YAM xx
How wonderful to have those old documents. My sister who owns a house a mere 140+ years' old, has a small section where former painters have autographed and dated their work on the wall. I think that is wonderful....but to touch old deeds would send a chill up my spine.
‘The Font’ found the treasure drawer in your new house! If memory serves me correctly, she has found treasures in other houses you have owned?!?!
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