{Dream: Of Several Buildings}[17th March 1990]

[Redbook7:90-91][19900317:2244]{Dream: Of Several Buildings}[17th March 1990]

19900317.2244

The vividness and significance of a dream sometimes grows on one throughout the day, until in the end it demands to be written down.

I was in a house which we had bought and which I took to be* the Old Court House at Llan[...],** although (as I explained to the friend whom I was showing around) I seemed to have no memory of how I had come to be there. In fact, the house was modern, well-appointed (without being luxurious), light, airy, and large: not only more but larger rooms, and larger doors etc.. I remember that the nursery had a staircase, spiral as I now believe, in the centre connecting it directly with what I believed to be the kitchen immediately below.***

Outside, we (or I) walked a few hundred yards across a broad, level plain or park, to the residence of the lady who had sold us the house.# She inhabited the nearer wing (approximately one-third) of an old grand house,#* the centre at least of which was now a hotel:#** from one point inside her home, one could see the hotel guests (or at least their chairs, tables etc.) in a kind of small inner courtyard.#*** She had been a great political hostess in her day: politicians used to stay with her on their way to and from the Irish ferry.#**** I passed through the old Library, dark and quiet: the gold tooling on the spines on a wall of books shone out in the gloom, and I thought of the difficulty of converting my own meagre library to look like that.##

*This suggests, as it was meant to suggest, doubt.<920620>

**{ref VI. [[Redbook6:354-356][19891130:1358b]{On the Move}[30th November 1989]] 355,

VII. [[Redbook7:122-123][19900417:1857#]{Dream: Of Boarding the Wrong Train}[17th April 1990],] 123}

***The Old Court House does not have this; but there is another house**** for sale in Llan[...] which has a full scale kitchen in, and in the middle of, what should be the third bedroom.... <920130>

****=[A] <920620> [– The house which the writer and his family eventually acquired]

#Although [A] was owned by a family, all our dealings were with the elderly Mrs [B]. <920620>

[Probably actually owned by Mr. & Mrs. [B]. It was inhabited by two families on three floors, the upper of which was used only for guests; the writer and his family later lived on that top floor, and let the middle floor main bedrooms as holiday Bed & Breakfast accommodation. There was a small semi-enclosed courtyard at the back,#***, later gravelled, where garden chairs were set out. The [B]s had already emigrated by the time of sale, but the wife & mother in the other family frequently visited [A] after the writer and his family moved in.]

#* This is curiously like the relationship of the Archbishop’s Palace and Diocesan Offices to the old Bishop’s Palace, now a museum. <901221>

#**I did not know whether the other wing was a part of the hotel or something else.

#***[A] is a semi-detached house. Our neighbours live as a couple but from time to time fill the house with their 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, & grandchildren. There is an ‘inner’ U-shaped alcove behind, in their half of which they are making a patio.... <920620>

At election time, their side was planted with Liberal posters. <920620>

#****{There may have been a news item about a Victorian castle in South Wales, built by this sort of person.}

##cf [[Redbook7:134][19900514:1135]{Conflict Circles}[14th May 1990]ff,] 134ff [apparently]

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