A Buyers Market

Here I am at a National Trust site in beautiful Ilam

I was thinking about entering the home buying market, what with the sub prime mortgage crisis going worldwide, so I toured some properties around town with my Aunt Liz and Uncle Les. Upon arrival Monday, I realized people can be very silly and materialistic: hence, a little place called Chatsworth.

Question: ''What is Chatsworth?''

Answer: A big house. 

Question: "What qualifies as a big house?"
Answer: Well if it isn't grand enough for one's lavish tastes, they should give up ever being satisfied because the place is m-a-s-s-i-v-e.

The film, The Dutchess, with Kiera Knightley was filmed on the estate and costumes from the production were on display. Chatsworth is in the area where Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy would have had his Pemberley estate and Chatsworth is mentioned in the TV series/movies; Jane Austen traveled along the same route we did and so would have Elizabeth Bennett, had she been real. If one cannot tell, I'm mad about P&P lately. There is a lovely cafe, tea room and restraunt in the old stables so we had lunch there; I tried the Rum and Raisin ice cream from the Chatsworth dairy farm and it was really good, the people running the cafe had never heard of soy milk before though. On the way back from Chatsworth we stopped in a place called Ilam and saw the pretty hills, gorgeous church, and huge hostel there.

Oh that's a lovely jumbo-sized calendar you have of plastic babies dressed in weird halloween costumes! Check out my Rembrandt.

A house is not a home unless it has its own sculpture gallery(just for the ones that don't fit anywhere else).

Just had this layin' round, some guy named

 Salvador Dali made it.

Chatsworth from the lawn.

Like most people who aren't particularly into music, they have a few grand pianos laying around.

These chickens are free range at the Chatsworth farm and apparently into art.

Never know when the Chorley family will be joining us for dinner, better be ready just in case.

Even the garden was intoxicated with art. I especially liked this merwoman.