Temple Newsam: [noun]- a Tudor-Jacobean house with 1500 acres of land, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

I'm very sleepy and I have a big weekend ahead of me, which you will read all about on Monday, so this post is going to be short. I went to Temple Newsam today on a field trip.  It's beautiful and near perfection.  I read on one of the information mabobs that someone named Lord Darcy once owned it.  I pretend it was THE Mr. Darcy then I pretended I was Elizabeth Bennett and that I had travelled back to the time of Mr. Darcy then I realized that Pride and Prejudice is fiction and that I would have to break some sort of reality/fictional barrier instead of traveling through time for Mr. Darcy and I (aka Elizabeth Bennett, 21st century reality version) to plausibly meet.  If you couldn't already tell, it was a great day.

At the moment that last photo there makes me want to stab my eyes out but I know I'll appreciate it next year when I'm missing my casual day trips to country houses.

I would like to leave you with some baffling information:
I miss country music and sports that aren't "football." MY SASKATCHEWANIAN ROOTS CANNOT BE DENIED!