Time To Plant

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At once a history of Holker Hall in Cumbria the story of a family a life a community & an exploration of continuity with the past & adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish Baron Cavendish of Furness owner of Holker Hall in Cumbria writes about the history of Holker which dates back to the sixteenth century & has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through the family line with each generation leaving its impressions. He writes too about his family
- his grandparents who faced with serious financial embarrassment sat down with a list to find savings & having identified essentials they agreed to give up taking Country Life & having hot water & lemon after dinner
- but still thought it not unreasonable to plan to divert a river to run through the park; his mother (relations with my mother were never good & often spectacularly bad); his aunts (collectively identified as the Aunt Heap). He describes his own life as a child at Holker (when I look back I allow myself the indulgence of believing I was not quite as stupid as my schoolmasters held me to be; nor quite as lazy) & later as the owner of Holker finding a way of managing huge resources & responsibilities & also immense debt. & of course he writes about the garden.