A very varied diet at Charleston today.   Sofka Zinovieff and Selina Hastings talked about their upper-class relations – Selina’s father who was the Earl of Hastings and worked in Mexico with Diego Rivera and Sofka’s grandfather, The Mad Boy, who was the lover of Lord Berners.   Juliet Stevenson read poetry by Emily Dickinson as orchestrated by Bill Nicholson.   A session on ‘The Language of Fashion’ was organised by Justine Picardie.   We ended with Benjamin Britten’s Phantasy Quartet followed by a balletic performance inspired by The Waves.

In the intervals, I walked up the track to see the Downs:-

To Tilton again:-

And through the Charleston garden:-