@brittarnhild
I got a message from one of my blog readers yesterday, Ardi in Seattle. Here is art of what she writes:
Good Mornin' Britt-Arnhild! I am attending a Knitting Conference at the Nordic Cultural Center in Seattle this weekend. Arnie and Carlos are going to be there and I am signed up to go to two of their lectures. I am on the waiting list for their class on knitting Christmas balls, too.
Arne & Carlos are two famous knitters living in Norway. I have several of their books and I follow them on facebook and twitter. Some time last summer they posted a photo of a book which looked so tempting, "Charleston, a Bloomsbury house & garden". Being a Virginia Woolf fan, I went over to amazon and bought the book........and fell in love.
The book arrived last August, and since I opened Books on the Menu that month, the second post I wrote was about this book and about Charleston.
Blog reader and friend Fran read this and told me that she lives not far from Charleston. And to make a long story short.........
.....here is where I found myself last Saturday.
From London Victoria I took the train south so Sussex. Fran met me at the train station in Polegate, took me on a tour of surprises (which will come in other blog posts) and then we ended up at Charleston. Where we had lunch, a walk in the garden, strolling the bookstore/gift shop and taking a one hour guided tour of the house.
One is not allowed to take photos indoors, but I have a long series of garden photos. And the indoors one can be seen both in the book and on the website.
I always do what I am told (well, mostly that is.....) so when the guide said no indoor photos I took no indoor photos. Though when we at the end of the tour came to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant´s studio, the camera was burning in my bag.
You can read more about Charleston here.
Good luck with your knitting weekend Ardi.
Thank you for a most wonderful day at Charleston Fran.
