It’s not just stately homes which annoy me, I also find myself getting cross with the entire infrastructure which silts up around them.
When I worked in buildings conservation and had to write reports there was always a problem with overly fancy writing which obscured meaning. I always remember one manager insisting on the word lacuna/lacunae when some element was missing. Argh!
When I worked in buildings conservation and had to write reports there was always a problem with overly fancy writing which obscured meaning. I always remember one manager insisting on the word lacuna/lacunae when some element was missing. Argh!