.       Une Maison D’etre


Un jour peut-etre, mais, pour

  le moment,  je suis content

  rester chez Staverton Hall,

meme si juste le gardiennage.

Je suis en train faire un peut

de recherche sur la maison.


So, what is a drawing room?

How naive of me to think it

was quiet space for artists.

It is in fact, a withdrawing

room where the occupants

retreated after vacating the

dining room, for relaxation.


In Ireland, we never had the

luxury of a parlour, well, not

in the literal sense of the term.

But without realising it, we did

converse as though we had one.

The etymology of Parlour comes

from the French verb Parler which

means to talk, Je Parle. etcetera.


The Larder predates fridges and

was situated against the shadowed

side of the house which is against

the inner side of north facing walls

as it was coolest. Here was where

meat was covered in Lard to prevent

it from going rancid, it was often stored

in a safe, (not the same as for money).

Lard, comes from olde French Larde

which is the joint of an animal 14th Ct,


The Pantry again owes its origins to the

French, as it come from the word Pain

(pronounced pan) and again, it was an

area allocated for the storage of flour.

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Hopefully you found this as interesting

as I did doing the research.

Ps.

Staverton Hall is in Nottinghamshire
where I am currently house sitting.
It is a Georgian House, Google it.