I woke and roused myself, thinking that it would be ridiculously early again, except when I looked at the clock, it was after 10! Everyone had apparently let me sleep, deciding I needed it.
We had breakfast - Jill cooked me an egg and I had toast and potato cakes. We headed off at probably about 11 in the direction of the Peak District. The country got hilly and it was lovely driving between the drystone walls and sheep.
The pub we wanted to have lunch at was closed down, so we went to the Highwayman at Rainow. It was very nice - on a hill with a good view. I had steak and kidney pie and salad. After this, we went the long way to Lyme Park, cutting through a section of Derbyshire on the way. Nice country!
There were a lot of people at Lyme Park - I was a bit disappointed to see that it was so commercial and touristy. The house itself is very impressive: the size of the rooms, and the height of the ceilings, the doors and the atmosphere. I walked across the courtyard and up the steps that Colin Firth (as Mr Darcy) walked as he was saying goodbye to Elizabeth Bennet the first time she went to Pemberley.
As I bought my ticket for entry, the man there told me that he was in contact with Colin Firth, having painted his portrait as Darcy. He's waiting for permission from the BBC to reproduce it, and it might be available from the house shop in a while. Pauline said she would send me one if she can get one. In the ticket office they also said how popular Pride and Prejudice had made Lyme Park, and various stories of seeing cast and production crew in the making of it.
The inside of the house wasn't actually used in the filming, so there was nothing of P&P interest in there. Jill and I did the walk on 'the Pemberley Trail' though. We saw the lake that Darcy dived into (now known as 'Darcy's lake') and walked the path that he took back to the house. Incidentally, the man in the ticket office had said he'd re-enact it for us, only he'd catch his death.
I was also a bit disappointed not to have got a really nice photo of the house from a good vantage point, but the gardens were closed, and so it just wasn't possible to walk around it outside.
After this, we got an ice cream and headed off. We didn't quite take the planned route back to Brook House, and went through Buxton. I was glad because this town has the Elizabeth George connection, but apart from that, it's actually a very nice place. After Buxton, we came home through what I call real moors, with heather, and walking tracks branching off from the road - I could imagine Nicola Maiden parking her car beside the road and taking off on a hike.
We got home fairly late, and Jill cooked a chicken maryland dinner with vegetables, and I drank wine. I tried to do a bit of work on Bach beforehand, but I was too tired. We watched Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and discovered it was absolutely identical to the Australian version. I was wacked, and went to bed at about 11.15.
We had breakfast - Jill cooked me an egg and I had toast and potato cakes. We headed off at probably about 11 in the direction of the Peak District. The country got hilly and it was lovely driving between the drystone walls and sheep.
The pub we wanted to have lunch at was closed down, so we went to the Highwayman at Rainow. It was very nice - on a hill with a good view. I had steak and kidney pie and salad. After this, we went the long way to Lyme Park, cutting through a section of Derbyshire on the way. Nice country!
There were a lot of people at Lyme Park - I was a bit disappointed to see that it was so commercial and touristy. The house itself is very impressive: the size of the rooms, and the height of the ceilings, the doors and the atmosphere. I walked across the courtyard and up the steps that Colin Firth (as Mr Darcy) walked as he was saying goodbye to Elizabeth Bennet the first time she went to Pemberley.
As I bought my ticket for entry, the man there told me that he was in contact with Colin Firth, having painted his portrait as Darcy. He's waiting for permission from the BBC to reproduce it, and it might be available from the house shop in a while. Pauline said she would send me one if she can get one. In the ticket office they also said how popular Pride and Prejudice had made Lyme Park, and various stories of seeing cast and production crew in the making of it.
The inside of the house wasn't actually used in the filming, so there was nothing of P&P interest in there. Jill and I did the walk on 'the Pemberley Trail' though. We saw the lake that Darcy dived into (now known as 'Darcy's lake') and walked the path that he took back to the house. Incidentally, the man in the ticket office had said he'd re-enact it for us, only he'd catch his death.
I was also a bit disappointed not to have got a really nice photo of the house from a good vantage point, but the gardens were closed, and so it just wasn't possible to walk around it outside.
After this, we got an ice cream and headed off. We didn't quite take the planned route back to Brook House, and went through Buxton. I was glad because this town has the Elizabeth George connection, but apart from that, it's actually a very nice place. After Buxton, we came home through what I call real moors, with heather, and walking tracks branching off from the road - I could imagine Nicola Maiden parking her car beside the road and taking off on a hike.
We got home fairly late, and Jill cooked a chicken maryland dinner with vegetables, and I drank wine. I tried to do a bit of work on Bach beforehand, but I was too tired. We watched Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and discovered it was absolutely identical to the Australian version. I was wacked, and went to bed at about 11.15.
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