I spent the day trawling through our photograph albums looking for photographs of our holidays in Scotland.

In amongst far too many photographs of people no longer with us, I was pleased to discover two photographs of Seaton Delaval, a house whose character is hard to convey photographically.

The first is an occasion when we made a detour driving down from Scotland in August 2000:-

The second was when I arranged to visit all the greatest Vanbrugh houses over a long weekend – was it in December 2008 ?

If I had remembered, I could have used them in my book….