Saturday, October 27, 2012

What's your priority?

Our trip to Dinefwr Park this week reminded me of one of my favourite monologue characters. She doesn't have a name but she does have very strong views about 'Historic Attractions'. 

"Our basic needs met. That’s all folk really want out of life. It’s all very well listing your Ancient Monuments, which have their place, I’d be the first to acknowledge. Bernard and I like nothing more than a Sunday afternoon drive out to an Historic Attraction, but an old ruin is not much use if you’re taken short. I've found, even when visiting the great Heritage Sites, that you can’t depend on the facilities being up to scratch. Edith and I went on a trip to a Stately Home with the WI last year and we found the Powder Room sadly lacking. I said, ‘It’s a shame they haven’t spent some of their Lottery money on the simple things of life. It’s all very well spending millions to clean up some old painting, but what really matters to the visitors? One old Master or a delicately fragranced Powder Room?’ Priorities, that’s what it comes down to."

3 comments:

Gledwood said...

Did you know that in Victoria's time, Buckingham Palace had no "public" at all, so how and where she and Albert pissed and shat I haven't a clue ~~ all I do know is that anyone invited to a ball had to be careful not to drink too much, or have the trots, as no "facilities" were available to the general "public" whatsoever ~ however elevated their "status"..!!! How vulgar is that??!

Maybe Victoria needed some Lottery Money of her own..?

nick said...

A delicately fragranced powder room is definitely more important. You can hardly appreciate the Old Masters if you're fidgeting and squirming and trying to control your uncooperative bladder.

Anonymous said...

She sounds pissed off...