Dry Rot and Daffodils: Life in a National Trust House (Ulverscroft Large Print)

by Mary Mackie

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This sequel to "Cobwebs and Cream Teas" continues the story of the author's seven years of living in and running Felbrigg Hall, a National Trust property in north Norfolk. Until Edwardian times an army of servants kept a great house in order, for the benefit of one family and its guests. Nearly a century later, a handful of people provide much the same service for thousands of summer visitors to mansions which now belong to the nation. As the only permanent house-staff at Felbrigg Hall, the author and her husband might one day be found crawling through a void between floors, covered in cobwebs and dead flies, finding dried mice and bats in inaccessible places; and the next day restraining over-enthusiastic visitors - and their children - or frantically preparing to receive royalty.
  • ISBN10 0575059346
  • ISBN13 9780575059344
  • Publish Date 13 July 1998 (first published 21 April 1994)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 October 2001
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 192
  • Language English