Oh the glamour …

The Centre - for those of you who don’t know - hangs out in a really handsome Victorian vicarage - sweeping staircase, high ceilings, tall windows, panoramic views across lower Eskdale. To the customers, walking in, all is calm and serenity and beauty.

I am, people tell me, so lucky to work somewhere so peaceful and lovely.

Allow me to introduce you to the bits BELOW the waterline … in the aftermath of the Festival of Fools:

The Butler’s Pantry (there’s a floor down there somewhere …):

My Office (legend has it there’s a marble fireplace  lurking somewhere in the area):

Now then people … You were SAYING?