Beautiful. So full of insight about the mysterious Sir Philip Sassoon, such a wonderful evocation of a beautiful and special house and its glorious site. (Meanwhile, it drives me mad - why on earth has Middlesex University - after 40 years - abandoned this glorious site? How can this be permitted? They acquired it - and with that, they acquired responsibility for the place itself. They shouldn't be allowed to get rid of it.) Your weaving together of such varied threads and colours, past and present, is so elegant, and yet so touching.
I'm on my way out to Trent Park right right ow for a Sunday afternoon springtime walk around the gardens, the grounds - yet what a sad sensation it is now to be aware of that empty, derelict house at their very centre.
Philip Sassoon was a bit of a beautiful enigma himself, I find myself thinking. Yes - so, er, "lithe". (Tall, slim, handsome, mysterious, aloof, alone.)
(One tiny correction, if I may - the knighted baronet Richard Jebb became "Sir Richard", rather than "Sir Jebb".)
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I'm on my way out to Trent Park right right ow for a Sunday afternoon springtime walk around the gardens, the grounds - yet what a sad sensation it is now to be aware of that empty, derelict house at their very centre.
Philip Sassoon was a bit of a beautiful enigma himself, I find myself thinking. Yes - so, er, "lithe". (Tall, slim, handsome, mysterious, aloof, alone.)
(One tiny correction, if I may - the knighted baronet Richard Jebb became "Sir Richard", rather than "Sir Jebb".)
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