We had high tea and took a little tour of the manor house at which we were staying! There is a lot of history there! here is a little snippet from the web site of the house www.adaremanor.com check it out for yourself! If a passer by had stopped to look at the Dunraven family home in the 1830s he would have seen a typical Georgian house. Returning twenty years later, he would have found that modest structure had disappeared and been replaced by the exceptional Neo-Gothic Manor that stands to this day. Staring at its towers, bays and steep roofs, he might have wondered what prompted such a great change. It is unlikely he would have guessed the reason, for the Manor owes its existence to one of the most excruciating ailments of that time. The 2nd Earl of Dunraven, an active outdoors man, had been laid low by gout, and confined to indoors. His wife, Lady Caroline, had encouraged him to embrace this immense undertaking to distract him from the pain of the disease. It was a distraction that would develop and mature into the next generation. When Lord Dunraven began to rebuild his home, he conceived a grand architectural scheme brimming with vigorous imagination and peppered with eccentricity. To marshal his taste for eclecticism and keep it in step with the principles of a beautiful house, the services of a front rank architect were required. The Earl chose James Pain whose technical flair and ability were indisputable. The house is initially reminiscent of a chateau, but many …
Show-closing number, this time GBS does OBD on-mic, which means the gout verse gets included. Ends with a few pertinent, poignant words in regard to it being GBS’s 17th birthday/anniversary The Slowdown, Omaha, March 11, 2010
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NICE Hat Jen! ireland looked pretty fun!
Comment by FunnyGuy113536 — July 15, 2011 @ 9:29 am
Loved it! Thanks for another wonderful tour of a place I have not been (but would love to go)! Curious…how much, in American money, is it to stay there?
Comment by IdahoJourneys — July 15, 2011 @ 10:09 am
“ooooooww fancy”
Comment by kayamiller — July 15, 2011 @ 10:23 am
the pinky! lol
Comment by theCeNationfan1996 — July 15, 2011 @ 11:16 am
TheTimTracker, REPLY TO MY COMMENT PLEASE?
Comment by wwefan70511 — July 15, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
Now the pinky situation!
Comment by OscarPuertas — July 15, 2011 @ 12:08 pm
Comment by MPfailproductions — July 15, 2011 @ 1:02 pm
this concert was my favorite concert at the slowdown yet, and in my top 3 of all time. i wish i wouldn’t have wasted shouting out ‘john barbour’ when it was already on their set list and picked something else instead. make sure you film a bunch of gaelic storm if you go on the 27th!
Comment by GenghisWanghis — July 15, 2011 @ 1:10 pm