Ard Daraich, a pink house under a hillside.
A house enveloped by layers of garden so that you are not sure where the house ends and the garden begins.
A house lived in, filled with beautiful things, soft at the edges.
A house that taught me that it is the attention to comfort that makes guests feel at home : warm beds, crisp sheets, comfortable chairs, candles on the breakfast table, a log fire waiting for you at the end of the day.
A house with a guest book composed of the laughter of other people who have passed through.
I try to pinpoint what it was that I loved about Ard Daraich and I see Norrie in his striped pinafore making porridge for our breakfast - so perhaps it is not the beds or the log fire after all, but a feeling that you are being cared for, a rare thing indeed.
A house enveloped by layers of garden so that you are not sure where the house ends and the garden begins.
A house lived in, filled with beautiful things, soft at the edges.
A house that taught me that it is the attention to comfort that makes guests feel at home : warm beds, crisp sheets, comfortable chairs, candles on the breakfast table, a log fire waiting for you at the end of the day.
A house with a guest book composed of the laughter of other people who have passed through.
I try to pinpoint what it was that I loved about Ard Daraich and I see Norrie in his striped pinafore making porridge for our breakfast - so perhaps it is not the beds or the log fire after all, but a feeling that you are being cared for, a rare thing indeed.
Oh my, how lovely!!
ReplyDeleteI loved it!
Deletestunning garden!!
ReplyDeleteIt really is a wonderful garden - winding up the hill - layers of stunning colour. There is a large camellia hedge which must be astonishing in spring.
DeleteWonderful!
ReplyDeleteA place to escape to!
DeleteI am trying to imagine a parallel universe with candles on the breakfast table. And nobody set fire to the newspaper?
ReplyDeleteDo people read newspapers at breakfast? Definitely not in our house - too antisocial - so candles it is.
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