Dining Room

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

This is an excerpt from the hilarious novel, Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years, by Ian Duncan Smith. You can download Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years for free.

Tony's Visitor Notes

A listed Victorian town-house built in the classical style in 1865. It was later altered on the garden side. The present owner, since 1985, has sympathetically remodelled and renovated to provide warm, comfortable surroundings while retaining many of the fine original features. "Evening meal's at eight. Breakfast at five thirty," said Mrs. Harris. "You're very welcome." I climbed the staircase of a large, but not spacious, old house with too many floors, too many doors, and too many ancient rooms. I dragged my suitcase to the top of the flight of stairs and walked into a dull little room lined with nicotine-coloured woodchip wallpaper that was so, you know, ugh! I nearly chucked up. There wasn't enough space for one person, let alone two. How could anyone live in such cramped conditions? It was obviously a cheap room for the poor, the brush salesman, the bible seller, the homeless person on the edge of society, and cool! I was just going to have to slum it too. That was what my rehabilitation was all about, experiencing the conditions I wished to change, and reaching out to the impoverished, the disenfranchised, the weak, the simple-minded with a bag of peanuts and a voter registration slip. But there wasn't a happening potential voter in sight. What was I doing in a provincial hell-hole? Reaching out to people with a big, helpful hand, that's what.

Click Here for Bookings. To those of you who've said the images on the left are too dark, that's the way we like it.*Special rates apply for HGV test instructors booked through the Invershneckie Tourist Information Centre. Mrs. Harris urges you to buy the book.

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