I'm really grateful for your input I imagine you are looking at the paragraph beginning "Delighted ...". Part of the problem is that I often use...
Zingiber, you mentioned problems with the link and thanks for the feedback. Yes I had noticed that it periodically fails. It seems to make no...
Thanks, yes. I've amended it. I suppose Sarah opened up the possibilities as to what servants got up to in single sex quarters. Sebastian from...
Is this OK as an introduction? Introduction This is not a spoof but a story inspired by “Downton Abbey”. The similarities are: · it is set...
My major work on here is the Ivor Bigun stories, "Love Party Britain" and "Decameron XXX". In the part of LPB about "Pride and Prejudice" my...
There is a solution to the title: "Cockshoots Hall - Great House of Love".
OT Also I like the fact that you have committed to this tale. So many threads in so short a time; I love it when inspiration strikes
Reading through your first thread, it started really well but there is section early on in which Tifa is fiddling with the collar where if felt a...
Writing Chapter 4, I was excited. All shall be revealed soon. And here's a scene from Chapter 5 as Madeleine makes notes. [IMG] I had this idea...
Coincidentally (not for research!) went to the local stately home today. My family were intrigued when I paced around the outside. This was not at...
Chapter 2 in the now 5 part introduction. Thinking about the floor plan it was logical for Bill to be in this room. I have written Chapter 3 which...
I did read, possibly on a school's literature site, that Nick says he's not judgmental and then judges people, doesn't rake over the past and then...
I'd love to do a house plan but I'm a bit busy. However I'll talk you through what I have decided: Only two floors, although the first floor is...
Don't know "Crome Yellow" - I'll read up on it. To me it's amazing that Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's teacher at school! OT, but it only...
Here is the first part of the 3 part introduction, which I will release when I have completed all of it. What do you think of the title? I was...
There is one more issue to deal with, discipline. Now corporal punishment did not really exist in most great houses by the 20th century because:...
Regarding clothes, at meals they would probably remain fairly formal (Edmonia might be in menswear), although the conversation would be...
A typical day at Cockshoots Hall 7.00 Scullery Maid, Between Maid and Dogsbody clean up and get fires going. 7.30 Kitchen Maid makes tea and...
A brief note on pubic hair The Earl and Countess have a particular interest in the ancient world, the gardens especially are littered with naked...
Thanks. I must admit Flora's probably my favourite. If you look at Google Maps just west of High Wycombe and north of the village of Piddington,...
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