{Kielder Water [continued(4)]}[7th September 1986]

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The second* curious (and rather unnerving) aspect about the Rectory (which turned out to be far too expensive and quite unsuitable in other ways**) was that the owner turned out to be the widow of the writer Grierson***: she spoke about him as though he had only just died: how he had been called to the Bar and done his pupillage; how he had decided to write because (as he said) he could never be as brilliant as his pupil-master, Denning****; how they had come to the Rectory with his mother, and lived on the top floor so as to have some privacy from her; how the present owner had only one daughter, born when she was nearly forty, and now thirty-four years old; how they had carefully put their money from film rights etc. into a useless insurance policy instead of cleverly into land.... Her predicament and history had so many parallels with mine that this alone would have quite put me off buying the Rectory. I felt extremely sorry for her and rather unnerved.

*[See last previous entry]

**She intended to live in the stable block, which was therefore excluded from the sale [but not from the sale particulars.] {930120}

***[Crime/detective story writer; Edward (1914-1975), I think, not Francis (1888-1972), and certainly not Francis (b1848)]

****[Alfred Thompson "Tom" Denning, Baron Denning, OM, PC, DL, QC (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999), commonly known as Lord Denning: an English lawyer and judge.]

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