Grimsdyke Hotel is a dramatic and elegant country house in huge grounds. Beyond the lwan are the trees which are not only natural looking but a home to wildife. The grounds and gardens provide food for the restaurant, herbs and honey. History is all around, with Grimsdkey, the dyke or ditch built to wards off the Romans extending away to Hatch End across the link road to the motorway..
The plaque on the outisde wall give you some of the history. The reception desk has more.
In the house is a portrait of Gilbert, who wrote the words for the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas. He was hugely successful. The hotel still puts on performances regularly.
My favourite quotations from the operas.
'When everybody's somebody, then nobody's anybody.'
'A policeman's lot is not a happy one.'
In for a penny, in for a pound
It's love that makes the world go round.
It isn't so much what's on the table that counts, as what's on the chairs.
Although Gilbert held important civic offices, he was able to make fun of everybody.
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