We’re back…
…and already plotting the How and When of our return to the scene of our public triumph, lovely Bath. We know Jane wasn’t fond of that city, but we liked it, especially out towards the first place that the Austens lived there, 4 Sydney Place.
A complete travelogue is forthcoming sometime this week–have some catching up to do first.
We really need to lead a round of applause for the other AustenBloggers (particularly Cub Reporter Tasha, who has done yeo(wo)man work and is being revived with a bracing pot of Dorothy’s Orange Pekoe) for handling things whilst we swanned round Old Blighty having fun. Or, in that Nelsonian spirit, perhaps three cheers:
Hip, hip, HUZZAH!
Hip, hip, HUZZAH!
Hip, hip, HUZZAH!
Incidentally, when we win the lottery, we plan to purchase 4 Sydney Place, kick out the current squatters who live there (hope they didn’t mind us taking photos of their house…but they really should close their curtains. Just saying) and turn it into the new and improved AustenBlog World Headquarters, with the comfortable chintz-upholstered chairs of the Jane Austen Memorial Library and Reading Room open to all Janeites! You just have to know the Password of the First Degree…Tilneys and trap-doors, of course.
October 31st, 2005 at 10:51 am
Welcome back!
Glad you had a good trip, and to hear from you occasionally–even if you did “neener neener neener” us–can’t blame you!
Looking forward to the travelogue, and I join in the rousing huzzahs for Tasha and company!
October 31st, 2005 at 5:29 pm
I’m glad you’re back, too! May we possibly hope for some pictures with the travelogue?