Saturday

Today I spent several hours upstairs on the Manor's first floor (remember that the first floor here is known as the ground floor, so in America I would have been on the second floor) shooting video of all the rooms I could get into.

I'm going to put these videos out a little bit at a time; there are quite a few and I think they're all pretty much set up the same way: You'll see the room, hear me describing it and some interesting features of it, and you'll see the view outside the windows when I shot them (it was a lovely sunny day today)

The reason I'm doing this is because I don't think pictures can totally do justice to the place; I think video does it a bit better. I will eventually take pictures but you get more of a sense of what these rooms look like if I walk around and show you them. Call it a grand tour.

So, introducing the first video. This is Ridgeway Hall, named after the guy who donated the manor to become a college. This is actually the third bit of video I shot in this room; the others just weren't good enough.

And yes, the painting you can't see I have tried to take pictures of and tried to shoot video of, but I can't get a good shot of it no matter how I try. Sorry about that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-J9aF0vn2U

Nothing else went on today; it's so quiet around here you could hear pins dropping if only someone was here to drop them.

Enjoy the video!

Cheers,
Bec