This isn’t about Delicious, it’s about yesterday. I decided to take a holiday from everything and go to Basildon Park for the day. Basildon Park is a gorgeous 18th-century house with beautiful grounds outside of Reading, and its most recent brush with fame is that it was filmed as Netherfield Park in the new Pride and Prejudice.
I stood outside the house and texted Biddy: Matthew MacFadyen stood RIGHT THERE!!
For once she didn’t tell me to shut up!
They had an exhibition of the costumes used in the film inside, and also an exhibition of what was done to preserve the house while filming was going on. It was fascinating, though I must say that I am very very shallow and spent quite a bit of time staring at the clothes that Mr MacFadyen wore in the film. You know, judging shoulder breadth and foot size and things like that. These things are important for a romance writer.
(It’s also a brilliant excuse to post this photo again, because they had this outfit on display. Ooh, er, um, yes.)
Then I wandered around the grounds and spent some time lying on the grass in the gentle sunlight, watching the trees and the birds and the clouds (and the many many airplanes, which sort of spoiled the mood).
Hopefully you found lots and lots of inspiration. Um yes, that costume is very good. Hopefully, he did indeed have the shoulder breadth…
*swoons*
*revives*
I will never tell you to shut up when it is about Mr MacFadyen.
*swoons*
Oh how cool!
Lucky you!! Very cool
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You know, seeing MM striding through the mist in his greatcoat, I thought, They really ought to do a version of Pride and Prejudice that features the image of The Man In the Long Black Coat. Regency men wore greatcoats, so it’s in keeping with the period, and there’s something about a man in a long black coat, whether it’s Keanu Reeves, James Marsters, David Boreanaz or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, who gets my vote for a new Darcy.
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