This appears to be the result of an inability to decide what to build. It’s castellated, has a steeply pitched roof more often seen aloft a continental château, looks as if it is covered in icing sugar and exhales a neo-gothic aroma. A riddle wrapped in a mystery – one I can solve.
The Frisian Islands, an archipelago off the coasts of Holland, Germany and Denmark are famous for their shifting sands; an impediment to navigation but an inspiration for Riddle of the Sands.
Yesterday’s post and the quotation from The Young Visiters last week, were culled from an anthology, Marriage, compiled by Elizabeth Jane Howard in 1997.
There is no greater risk, perhaps, than matrimony, but there is nothing happier than a happy marriage. (Benjamin Disraeli, from a letter to Princess Louise on her engagement, 1870)