I’ve started to notice something about the local architecture, and that is : turrets.
This is a major problem for me as our house does not have any and looking about me I’m noticing that any self respecting house holder of merit should have at least a small turret on the property. Two is obviously better – equally spaced.
The range of turrets however seems to be inexhaustible, I noted one today that appeared not to be attached to the house ( ok château) at all, it looked to erupt from the grounds like a missile from a silo or less threateningly like a French minerete, something that could be used to call in the estate workers.
Even the dove cotes are little individual turrets set out in a field!
Anyway I’ve not got one and I’m suffering ‘turret envy’.
Well, my envy could be satiated by buying a house with turrets but frankly we can’t afford it, not even one with a small turret feature and we rather like where we are ha you very much. So there’s nothing for it but to build. This has its own problems the most important being I’ve never built a turret before and manuals seem a bit thin on the ground – ‘ Turret building for dumies ‘ and the like.
So far the best advice I’ve had is to start by making a small wall – this seems a little perfunctory after all I’m looking to make a statement, establish a position, build a bloody great tower. That said starting with elimentary bricklaying might be the sensible way forward but who amongst us likes sensible argument.
I think my taste for turrets has been further tickled by our visit to stonehouse gardens where they had done just what’s in my mind – started with a wall and just kept going as if there were no tomorrow and what a fabulous outcome.
Pass the cement would you …
and the truffle. Sorry I meant trowel !
Ruby&Ruch 